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‘Living in Shaw as a boy in the 1960’s Lydiard Park was our playground, being only about five fields away.  We messed...

‘For as long as I can remember I have been fascinated by graveyards and cemeteries’ says Tania O’Halloran. ‘ They...

From English Heritage outreach programmes to the restoration of the parkland and a paranormal experiment, Bruce Hedge has...

Since supporting the Friends successful campaign to protect Lydiard House and Park from outsourcing in 2016/17, art lover...

From Commonweal School and Cub Scout camp at Lydiard Park to commanding The 6th Queen Elizabeth’s Own Gurkha Rifles, Nigel...

Brought Up Of Nought: A History of the Woodvile Family by Lynda J. Pidgeon As a Swindonian I was always familiar with...

From his home, Belladrum in Scotland, long standing Friend Joe Gibbs describes the family connections with Lydiard Park that...

Local historian and Friends of Lydiard Park trustee Frances Bevan has been breathing life into Lydiard characters and...

My first visit to Lydiard Tregoze was in the fifth year at Sir Walter St John’s School in Battersea when a small party of...

“When my husband and I moved to Swindon eight years ago to be nearer the children, we did not know that Swindon had a park...