#1 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
City Centre Swindon
Swindon
~0.85 miles from Swindon city center
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#2 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
Ashdown House
Oxfordshire
~7.71 miles from Swindon city center
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#3 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
Legoland Windsor
Broomsgrove
~8.50 miles from Swindon city center
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#4 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
City Centre Cirencester
Gloucestershire
~13.83 miles from Swindon city center
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#5 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
City Centre Chippenham
Chippenham
~16.61 miles from Swindon city center
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#6 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
Welford Park
Cotswolds
~16.85 miles from Swindon city center
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#7 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
Combe Gibbet
~18.98 miles from Swindon city center
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Combe Gibbet is a gibbet at the top of Gallows Down, near the village and just within the civil parish of Combe in Berkshire (formerly Hampshire).
The gibbet is located at grid reference SU360620, on the Test Way close to the Berkshire-Hampshire border, it is named after the village of Combe, but it is also close to Inkpen. The nearest sizeable town is Newbury in Berkshire. It is built on top of a long barrow known as the Inkpen long barrow. The long barrow is 60m long and 22m wide. Walbury Hill (the highest point in South East England) is just a little further to the east.
It was erected in 1676 for the purpose of hanging George Broomham and Dorothy Newman and has only ever been used for them. The gibbet was placed in such a prominent location as a warning, to deter others from committing crimes.
George and Dorothy were having an affair and were hanged for murdering George's wife Martha, and their son Robert after they discovered them together on the downs. Unfortunately for the lovers, the murder was witnessed by Mad Thomas, who managed to convey what he had seen to the authorities.
A replica gibbet marks the site. The original was destroyed many years ago and subsequent replicas have been replaced several times.
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#8 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
Walbury Hill
~19.30 miles from Swindon city center
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#9 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
City Centre Witney
Oxfordshire
~19.52 miles from Swindon city center
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#10 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
Donnington Castle
Berkshire
~21.09 miles from Swindon city center
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Donnington Castle (51°25'11?N 1°20'17?W) is a ruined medieval castle, situated in the small village of Donnington, just north of the town of Newbury in the English county of Berkshire.
Donnington Castle was built by its original owner, Richard Abberbury the Elder, under a licence granted by Richard II in 1386 AD. The surviving castle gatehouse dates from this time. The castle was subsequently bought by Thomas Chaucer, the son of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, as a residence for his daughter Alice, who later became Duchess of Suffolk. This family later fell out with the Tudor monarchs, and the castle became a Royal property. Both King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I visited Donnington Castle and the latter wanted to live there during her imprisonment by her sister, Queen Mary I, but this was not allowed.
By the time the English Civil War broke out, the castle was owned by the Parliamentarian Packer family but after the First Battle of Newbury it was taken for the King and held by Sir John Boys. Despite being besieged for most of the war, the castle succeeded in guarding the major routeways from London to the West Country and Oxford to Southampton, and during the Second Battle of Newbury, the castle was able to hold off the Parliamentary attackers. Finally, after an eighteen month siege, the garrison surrendered and were allowed to rejoin Royalist forces in Wallingford.
In 1646 Parliament voted to demolish the castle. All that remains of the castle today is the substantial four towered gatehouse, and the surrounding earthworks.
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#11 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
City Centre Newbury
Berkshire
~21.98 miles from Swindon city center
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#12 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
Newbury Town Hall
Berkshire
~22.00 miles from Swindon city center
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#13 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
West Berkshire Museum
Berkshire
~22.07 miles from Swindon city center
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#14 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
Great Chalfield Manor
~23.01 miles from Swindon city center
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#15 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
City Centre Stroud
Gloucestershire
~23.18 miles from Swindon city center
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#16 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
Sandham Memorial Chapel
~23.80 miles from Swindon city center
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#17 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
Highclere Castle
~23.80 miles from Swindon city center
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#18 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
Thatcham Nature Discovery Centre
Thatcham
~23.82 miles from Swindon city center
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#19 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
Greenham Common
Berkshire
~24.02 miles from Swindon city center
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#20 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
St. Mary's Church (Thatcham)
Thatcham
~24.46 miles from Swindon city center
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#21 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
Oxford Central Train Station
Oxfordshire England
~25.12 miles from Swindon city center
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#22 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
City Centre Trowbridge
Trowbridge
~25.27 miles from Swindon city center
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#23 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
City Centre Oxford
Oxfordshire
~25.50 miles from Swindon city center
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#24 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
The Oxford Story
Oxfordshire
~25.55 miles from Swindon city center
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#25 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
City Centre Stow on the Wold
Stow-on-the-Wold
~25.56 miles from Swindon city center
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#26 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
University Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Oxfordshire
~25.66 miles from Swindon city center
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#27 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
The Radcliffe Camera
Oxfordshire
~25.68 miles from Swindon city center
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#28 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
Sheldonian Theatre
Oxfordshire
~25.70 miles from Swindon city center
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#29 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
Magdelen Bridge Boathouse
Oxfordshire
~25.89 miles from Swindon city center
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http://www.riverthames.co.uk/boat/hire/1732.htm
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#30 of 30 Things To Do in Swindon
Lardon Chase, the Holies and Lough Down
Streatley
~25.94 miles from Swindon city center
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