There are two bus routes from the town centre to my neck of the woods, three if you count the number 19 whose destination is Sparcells. The number 1A is the more direct route while the number 1 goes the wrong way or the long way home. Buses depart from the G stop on Fleming Way and take a left turn into Catherine Street. From here both buses travel along Faringdon Road and past the Milton Road Baths on the left, the railway village on the right. A turn into Park Lane and under the railway bridge, making a left turn into the Churchward estate built on the site of the former railway factory 'A' Shop. We're now on the Wootton Bassett Road approaching Mannington Roundabout and West Swindon. At the West Swindon centre the two routes part company. The 1A travels up Tewkesbury Way while the number 1 goes the wrong way home, the long way home, travelling through first Grange Park and then the Prinnels. The western development of Swindon began in 1975. Altho...