SWINDON (BOROUGH)

Borough of Swindon
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Geography
Status:	Unitary, Borough
Region:	South West England
Ceremonial County:	Wiltshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 177th 230.10 km²
Admin. HQ:	Swindon
ONS code:	00HX
Demographics
Population: - Total () - Density	Ranked / km²
Ethnicity:	95.2% White 2.1% S.Asian
Politics
Swindon Borough Council http://www.swindon.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:
MPs:	Anne Snelgrove (L) Michael Wills (L)

The Borough of 'Swindon' is a local government district in South West England. It is centred on the town of Swindon and forms part of the ceremonial county of Wiltshire. It was formed in 1974 as the 'Thamesdown' district of Wiltshire, from former area of the municipal borough of Swindon and Highworth Rural District.
On April 1, 1997 it was made administratively independent of Wiltshire, with its council becoming a unitary authority. ^[1] It adopted the name Swindon on April 24, 1997. The former Thamesdown name and logo is still used by the main local bus company of Swindon, called Thamesdown Transport Limited ^[2]
Around 2002, Swindon Borough Council was rated as a failing Council - this ultimately lead to a change in political administration, which up until that point had been Labour for some 20 years (excluding a six month period when a Conservative administration was in control). Since then the Council has been working to improve services and manage its budgets better. To help achieve this, the Council in 2005 announced the Swindon 2010 50 Promises. These are 50 high level goals that it plans to do by the year 2010. These stretching goals were publicly announced and updates are regularly featured in the Swindon Advertiser newspaper.
Swindon Borough Council is now a 2 star Council according to the Audit Commission ^[3]

Contents

Economy

Area covered

Wards

References

Economy

This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Swindon at current basic prices published (pp.240-253) by ''Office for National Statistics'' with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.

Year	Regional Gross Value Added	Agriculture	Industry	Services
1995	'2,654'	13	1,023	1,618
2000	'4,085'	9	1,368	2,708
2003	'4,259'	8	1,185	3,067

includes hunting and forestry
includes energy and construction
includes Financial Intermediation Services Indirectly Measured
Components may not sum to totals due to rounding

Area covered

The Borough covers not just the town of Swindon, but surrounding countryside and the town of Highworth and villages including

★ Badbury

★ Bishopstone

★ Blunsdon

★ Chiseldon

★ Liddington

★ Sevenhampton

★ South Marston

★ Wanborough

★ Wroughton

Wards

The following are the Electoral Wards within the Borough.

★ Moredon

★ St Margaret

★ Freshbrook and Grange Park

★ Parks

★ Highworth

★ Covingham and Nythe

★ Blunsdon

★ Walcot

★ Central

★ Dorcan

★ Haydon Wick

★ Eastcott

★ St Philips

★ Shaw and Nine Elms

★ Ridgeway

★ Old Town and Lawn

★ Toothill and Westlea

★ Gorse Hill and Pinehurst

★ Western

★ Wroughton and Chiseldon

★ Abbey Meads

★ Penhill

References