Top Ten Swindon

In addition to the last post on Swindon, for quick reference, here’s the content of our ‘Top 10 Recommended Things To Do in Swindon’:

1. STEAM, Museum of the Great Western Railway

2. Lydiard Park

3. Lydiard House

4. Lydiard Tregoze St Mary’s Church

5. Lydiard House Walled Garden

6. North Wessex Downs AONB

7. Barbury Castle Country Park

8. Wayland’s Smithy Long Barrow

9. Uffington White Horse on White Horse Hill

10. Avebury Stone Circle World Heritage Site

Clearly, there’s loads more to do in the area and we list many of these here in our Things To Do in & around Swindon section.

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Swindon Secret Britain

Having really enjoyed the last episode of the BBC’s ‘Secret Britain’, we took a quick peek at the content of the next episode entitled ‘The Hidden Heart’. The blurb reads ‘Matt searches for a mysterious island in the enigmatic waterworld of the Norfolk Broads, while Julia discovers a secret side to Swindon’.

Swindon. Much looked down upon by the media, Swindon’s actually an extraordinary place in a super location.

We write about it here and offer our  ‘Top 10 Recommended Things To Do in Swindon’ here.

Members of the PictureTheUK team lived in the area for eight years and highlights, for us, include the internationally important STAEM, Museum of the Great Western Railway and the North Wessex Downs AONB on the boundary of which Swindon sits.

If you have local recommendations, please add them here or @picturetheuk on Twitter.

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The Cornish Alps, Rumps Point, Haytor Quarries and the BBC’s ‘Secret Britain’

Just enjoyed watching the BBC’s new series ‘Secret Britain’.  If you didn’t see it, the programme covered some fantastic, ‘secret’, locations and attractions in the south of England including:

The Cornish Alps

Rumps Point

Pentire Point

Haytor Rocks

Haytor Quarries

Stover Canal

Teignmouth

Catch the programme here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00thlx9

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