Swindon

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Swindon (from the Anglo-Saxon swin dun, 'pig hill') is a large town in the county iof Wiltshire, in central-southern England. Originally a small market town, it expanded greatly in the 1840s when the manufacturing works of the Great Western Railway were located here.