What is a Conservation Area?

To learn more about Swindons' 28 Conservation Areas please read our leaflet.

Conservation Area leaflet.pdf

Where are the Conservation Areas?

To learn more....

SBC have two important documents relating to Conservation Areas; Firstly, the Conservation Area Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) and the areas' Conservation Area Appraisal.

1. Conservation Area SPG

The purpose of the SPG is to provide the background to the designation of the Borough’s Conservation Areas and to list the architectural, historic and environmental elements that have formed the framework for the Council’s ‘Conservation Area appraisals’.

Conservation Area SPG
(2.3Mb PDF Document)

2. Conservation Area Appraisal

These documents describe the Conservation Area in detail and the history behind some of the buildings.

The appraisals and accompanying maps are listed below in alphabetical order and saved as PDF files.

Badbury (1.1MB)

Badbury Map (0.9MB)

Bishopstone (2.5 MB)

Bishopstone Map (1.2 MB)

Blunsdon St.Andrew (193KB

Blunsdon St.Andrew Map (1.8 MB)

Broad Blunsdon (493 KB)

Broad Blunsdon Map (1.6MB)

Castle Eaton (1.6 MB)

Castle Eaton Map (1.3 MB

Chiseldon (1.7 MB)

Chiseldon Map (1.9 MB)

Hampton (2.1 MB)

Hampton Map (1.1 MB)

Hannington (2.3 MB)

Hannington Map (1.5 MB)

Highworth (1.8 MB)

Highworth Map (2.0 MB)

Hinton Parva (1.8 MB)

Hinton Parva Map (1.1 MB)

Hodson (1.1 MB)

Hodson Map (1.0 MB)

Liddington (467 KB)

Liddington Map (1.4 MB)

Lower Blunsdon (444 KB)

Lower Blunsdon Map (1.0 MB)

Lower Wanborough (2.2 MB)

Lower Wanborough Map (1.7 MB)

Sevenhampton (470 KB)

Sevenhampton Map (1.2 MB)

Stanton Fitzwarren (1.5 MB)

Stanton Fitzwarren Map (1.1 MB)

Stratton St Margaret (Kingsdown) (1.2 MB)

Kingsdown Map (1.3 MB)

Stratton St Margaret (Lower Stratton) (1.5 MB)

Lower Stratton Map (1.8 MB)

Swindon Old Town - Devizes Road (696 KB)

Devizes Road Map (1.5 Mb)

Swindon Old Town - Old Town (1.2 MB)

Old Town Map (2.0 MB)

Swindon Old Town  - Prospect Place (1.8 MB)

Prospect Place Map (1.7 MB)

Swindon Old Town - Town Gardens (1.1 MB)

Town Gardens Map (2.5 MB)

Swindon - Railway Village (1.8  MB)

Railway Village Map (2.4 MB)

Swindon - Railway Works (1.5 MB)

Railway Works Map (1.8 MB)

Swindon - Rodbourne Cheney (1.7 MB)

Rodbourne Cheney Map (2.0 MB)

Upper Inglesham (1.3 MB)

Upper Inglesham Map (1.0 MB)

Upper Wanborough (408 KB)

Upper Wanborough Map (1.4 MB)

Wroughton (1.9 MB)

Wroughton Map (1.6 MB)

Printed Documents

Copies of current appraisals are available for purchase and please see the ‘Obtaining Printed Copies’ page for details of how to obtain the documents.

Useful Links

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

English Heritage

Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB)

Ancient Monuments Society

Council for British Archaeology

The Georgian Group

The Victorian Society

The Twentieth Century Society

This web page was last updated on Monday  22nd February 2010.