Swindon Works
Swindon railway works were built by the Great Western Railway in 1841 in Swindon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom.
Corinium, which is thought to have been associated with the ancient British tribe of the Dobunni, having the same root word as the River Churn. The earliest known reference to the town was by Ptolemy in AD 150.
Population: 16,214
Latitude: 51° 43' 9.37" N
Longitude: -1° 58' 17.22" W
Swindon railway works were built by the Great Western Railway in 1841 in Swindon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom.
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Corinium Dobunnorum was the Romano-British settlement at Cirencester in the present-day English county of Gloucestershire. Its 2nd-century walls enclosed the 2nd-largest area of a city in Roman Britain.
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