Down Your Way – Stories from Gorse Hill

Swindon's Story 1 Minute

In the beginning Gorse Hill barely stretched from the railway line to St. Barnabas’s Church with the Duke of Edinburgh pub and Baptist and Methodist Chapels in between. Taking its name from Gorse Hill House which once stood on Cricklade Road, early development was called the Gorse Hill Farm Estate and began in about 1885.

Read about some of Gorse Hill’s residents here:

Nellie and William James Bacon – A Gorse Hill Story

Lydia Fry – For Services Rendered

Rev P. Maddocks – Funeral of Swindon’s Oldest Vicar

Miss Lorna Dawes and a life inside

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Published by Radnor Street Cemetery

I am a local historian and writer researching the history of Radnor Street Cemetery in Swindon. I have written three books - Struggle and Suffrage in Swindon: Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality published by Pen and Sword and The Ladies of Lydiard and West Swindon - What the eye doesn't see written in collaboration with Angela Atkinson and Roger Ogle both published by Hobnob Press.

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