SWINDON, a market-town of England, Wiltshire, on a hill 19 miles N.E. by N. of Devizes, and 80 W. of London. It consists of 5 principal streets, which are broad, regular, and neat; and it contains many good buildings. There are a handsome town-hall and market-house, an elegant gothic parish church, other places of worship belonging to Wesleyans and Independents; national, British, and infant schools, a library, and reading-room. Swindon is a principal station of the Great Western Railway, which has a locomotive-engine factory here, employing 1500 hands. In connection with this factory, a new town, called
New Swindon, has sprung up, containing a church, schools, and mechanics' institute of its own. Pop. of the parish, 4876.