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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Swindon like this:
SWINDON, a chapelry in Wombourn parish, Stafford; on the Stafford and Birmingham canal, 4¼ miles NW of Brierley-Hill r. station Post town, Wombourn, under Wolverhampton. Pop., about 600. The living is a p curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £100. Patron, the Vicar of Wombourn.
Swindon is now part of SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE District. Click here for graphs and data of how SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Swindon itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Swindon, in South Staffordshire and Staffordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/8546
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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