Ridgeway View

Ridgeway View
Ridgeway View
Hamlet
Country	England
County	Wiltshire

Ridgeway View is a hamlet 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the village of Chiseldon near Swindon, in the county of Wiltshire, England.

During World War I, a large hutted army camp was built to the east of Draycot Foliat; from 1930 there was a small station on the Swindon to Marlborough line, called Chiseldon Camp Halt. In World War II the area housed British and American troops, and around 1963, after the army left, the married quarters became residential housing, later named Ridgeway View.^[1]

Ridgeway View falls within the civil parish of Chiseldon.

Leicester Tigers and England winger Jonny May was born, and grew up in, Ridgeway View.^{[citation needed]}

References[edit]

^ Dunning, R. W.; Rogers, K. H.; Spalding, P. A.; Shrimpton, Colin; Stevenson, Janet H.; Tomlinson, Margaret (1970). "Parishes: Chiseldon". In Crittall, Elizabeth (ed.). A History of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 9. Victoria County History. University of London. pp. 6–23. Retrieved 30 April 2023 – via British History Online.

51°30′07″N 1°43′48″W / 51.502°N 1.730°W / 51.502; -1.730

[1] Dunning, R. W.; Rogers, K. H.; Spalding, P. A.; Shrimpton, Colin; Stevenson, Janet H.; Tomlinson, Margaret (1970). "Parishes: Chiseldon". In Crittall, Elizabeth (ed.). A History of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 9. Victoria County History. University of London. pp. 6–23. Retrieved 30 April 2023 – via British History Online.

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