In which I continue my Swindon pilgrimage ... I cross busy Bath Road at the traffic lights by the Monkey Puzzle tree and begin my descent down the hill. Today the former market town has a number of routes down the hill, but back in the day shopping in Old Swindon involved a trek across muddy fields up Eastcott Hill for the housewives in New Swindon. My regular route is Kingshill Road, considerably easier walking down than climbing up. The Kingshill area is named after the medieval, landowning King family. The earliest surviving registers for Holy Rood, the original parish church in Old Swindon, contain numerous references to the King family. 'Elinour King widdow' was buried in the churchyard at Holy Rood on March 24, 1681 and her will was published the following year. Elianour's husband Stephen died in 1667 and at the time of her death 14 years later the couple had four surviving children, sons Henry, Stephen and Bartholomew and a daughter, Mary. Elinour divid...