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Toothill, Swindon

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Toothill is a suburb in Swindon, Wiltshire, England, located atop its namesake hill around 2 miles (3 km) southwest of the town centre. Constructed in the 1970s, Toothill was the first area to be developed within what is now West Swindon parish. Contiguous with Freshbrook to the west, Toothill is bounded by the dual-carriageway Great Western Way (A3102) to the southeast, and Tewkesbury Way to the north. Nearby areas include Wichelstowe, approximately 1 mile (2 km) to the east, and Westlea about 0.6 miles (1 km) to the north. The area is predominately residential, with a local village centre and multiple small parks.

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Toothill, Swindon
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N 51.553 ° E -1.821 °
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Toothill Methodist Church

Flint Hill
SN5 8SX , Toothill
England, United Kingdom
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Rushey Platt railway station
Rushey Platt railway station

Rushey Platt railway station is a former station on the Midland and South Western Junction Railway at Rushey Platt, south west of the centre of Swindon in Wiltshire. The line was extended in 1882, and the station opened on 18 December 1883 on the Swindon and Cheltenham Extension Railway line from Swindon Town to the temporary terminus at Cirencester Watermoor. The S&CER line amalgamated in 1884 with the Swindon, Marlborough and Andover Railway to form the M&SWJR, and through services beyond Cirencester to the junction at Andoversford with the Great Western Railway's Cheltenham Lansdown to Banbury line, which had opened in 1881, started in 1891. An additional loop for goods traffic opened in 1921.Rushey Platt was at the junction where the 1883 S&CER line branched off from the SM&AR link line between Swindon Town railway station and the main Great Western Railway station at Swindon. It had platforms on both the through S&CER line and the link, but the service between the two Swindon stations ceased after March 1885 because of the high fees the GWR charged the M&SWJR to run over its tracks, and that part of the station closed only 15 months after it had opened. Passenger services at the through platforms of the station lasted only a further 20 years and were withdrawn in 1905: the station closed on 1 October 1905, the first station on the line to close to passengers. However, the station remained open for goods traffic, mainly milk, until the M&SWJR line closed to goods in 1964, and a private siding lasted even longer. The railway embankment is still visible and all that remains of the station is a very weathered upper platform. The rest of the station has disappeared through time and development, and some of the site has been replaced by part of an industrial warehouse in Swindon's Rushey Platt Industrial Park. The route of the former railway can still be seen with bridges at Mill Lane and Redpost Road.