Swindon

While the train from Swindon to London is a challenge for anyone, it becomes life threatening for Christopher.
Book Bag: How to Survive—Five Stories About Unlikely Survivors|Claire Cameron|February 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Hilary Clinton and Rihanna and Tilda Swindon and Claire Danes.
Ann Patchett: How I Write|Noah Charney|October 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST
It is notorious that the Swindon of to-day is the creation of the companion of Brunel at the lunch in the furze-bushes.
The Hills and the Vale|Richard Jefferies
The workmen required food—tradesmen came and supplied that food—and Swindon rose as Chicago rose, as if by magic.
The Hills and the Vale|Richard Jefferies

We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be there in twenty minutes.
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes|A. Conan Doyle
In June, 1867, he writes that he has completed his "History of Swindon" and its neighbourhood.
The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies|Walter Besant
Then he goes back to Swindon, but not, for the present, to Coate.
The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies|Walter Besant

British Dictionary definitions for Swindon

Swindon

/ (ˈswɪndən) /

noun

a town in S England, in NE Wiltshire: railway workshops, high technology. Pop: 155 432 (2001)

a unitary authority in S England, in Wiltshire. Pop: 181 200 (2003 est). Area: 230 sq km (89 sq miles)

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