Coordinates: 51°32′37″N 1°42′01″W / 51.54371°N 1.7002°W
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 St Andrew's Church in Wanborough |
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.png)  Wanborough
Wanborough shown within Wiltshire |
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| OS grid reference | |
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| District | Swindon |
| Shire county | Wiltshire |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Swindon |
| Dialling code | 01793 |
| Police | Wiltshire |
| Fire | Wiltshire |
| Ambulance | Great Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| List of places: UK • England • Wiltshire | |
Wanborough is a village in the borough of Swindon, Wiltshire, UK and south east of Swindon town centre.
History
In Roman times the settlement was known as Durocornovium and was a little north west of the current position, at a road junction mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary. Being the last vicus on Ermin Street before the scarp slope of the Marlborough Downs, Durocornovium was a site where horses were watered before the steep climb off the Oxfordshire plain. Wanborough was mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles as Wôdnes-beorg which later became Wodnesborough before becoming Wanborough.[1][2][3][4]
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Wanborough is just off the Ridgeway National Trail. Development in a strip along the road frontages characterised the village, which reached maximum development in the fourth century.[5]
Buildings
Wanborough has a highly unusual church, St Andrew's, with a spire at one end and a tower at the other. There are only three parish churches with this feature in the UK (the others are at Purton, Wiltshire and Ormskirk, Lancashire.
Facilities
The village has a small post office/shop and is well served with six public houses: The Black Horse; The Brewers Arms; The New Calley Arms; The Cross Keys; The Harrow; and The Plough. A seventh pub is The Shepherd's Rest, a couple of miles south on Ermin Street which is at the hamlet called Foxhill and sometimes considered part of the village. The village also has a Primary School.[6] Redlands Airfield is a base for microlight aviation and skydiving parachute training.[7]
Notes
- ^ Jaques, Tony. 'Dictionary of Battles And Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity Through the Twenty-first Century'. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006. ISBN 0313335362, 9780313335365. Length: 1432 page
- ^ Duignan, William Henry. 'Notes on Staffordshire Place Names'. H. Frowde, 1902. Length: 178 pages
- ^ Johnston, James Brown.'The Place-names of England and Wales. E.P. Dutton and Co., 1916, Princeton University. Length: 532 pages
- ^ Green, John Richard. 'A Short History of the English People'. Macmillan, London 1901. Digital: http://www.archive.org/details/shorthistoryofen01greeuoft
- ^ Stillwell, ed. Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, s.v. "Durocornovium"
- ^ Wanborough Primary School
- ^ Redlands Airfield
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