Travel Information for Skylark Meadow

Travel Information for Skylark Meadow

New Home, New Start, New Ways to Travel Travel Information for Skylark Meadow Swindon Travel Choices Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................ 1 About this travel information pack ............................................................................................................... 2 Walking ........................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Cycling ............................................................................................................................................................................ 4 Services and facilities plan .................................................................................................................................. 6 Swindon cycle map ................................................................................................................................................ 8 Bus ................................................................................................................................................................................. 10 Bus routes in Swindon plan ............................................................................................................................ 12 Taxi ................................................................................................................................................................................. 14 Car sharing ................................................................................................................................................................ 15 Electric vehicles ..................................................................................................................................................... 16 Shopping .................................................................................................................................................................... 17 Local contacts ........................................................................................................................................................ 18 Introduction This Travel Information Pack contains useful information about your travel options in and around Blunsdon. Getting involved with your Travel Plan has plenty of positive benefits for you including: 4 Improving your fitness, health and wellbeing 4 Reducing your travel costs 4 Reducing your travel times 4 Improving your accessibility to local services 4 Making the community safer 4 Improving your travel choices 4 Creating a cleaner, more vibrant local community 1 About this Walking travel information pack One of the easiest and cheapest ways to travel is to walk, particularly if your destination is within 2-kilometres of the your new home. Walking is also a versatile mode of travel – there’s no waiting around, no congestion and it’s free! Newland Homes is committed to promoting sustainable transport for the residents of Skylark Meadow. Research shows that walking 10,000 steps a day will significantly improve your health. Putting one foot in front of the other can build stamina, burn excess calories and give Situated to the north of Swindon, on the edge of glorious open Cotswolds countryside, you a healthier heart. Blunsdon is a delightful place to set up home and raise a family. Here you’ll get to enjoy all the superb facilities of Swindon, without living in the town itself, giving you the best Newland Homes has provided good quality, direct and well-lit footways throughout the of both worlds. development. These routes connect to existing paths which provide access to the local area. This guide provides further information on the different ways that you can travel in the Blunsdon has a range of services, facilities and amenities in the village within walking area for your daily trips as well as those journeys you undertake less frequently. distance, such as the community shop, a gym, restaurant, GP surgery and Heart in Hand pub. There are also a primary school, Blunsdon Hill Baptist and Blunsdon Methodist A primary aim of the development is to encourage the use of more sustainable forms churches. Additionally the Cold Harbour pub is located on the edge of the village. of transport such as walking, cycling, public transport or car sharing. Please take a few moments to read this Travel Information Pack and consider how you Useful websites can choose to make more sustainable travel choices. · www.swindontravelchoices.co.uk/walk · www.walkingforhealth.org.uk/walkfinder/step-out-swindon · www.wiltsswindonramblers.org.uk Useful walking apps · MapmyWalk · One You Active 10 Walk Tracker · Pedometer · OS Maps 2 3 Swindon Cycles Superstore Cycling 60a, Beechcroft Rd, Upper Stratton, Swindon, Wiltshire SN2 7QD www.swindoncycles.co.uk Cycling is fast, convenient, healthy and cost-effective, and is a realistic way to travel from your new home, especially if your destination lies within 5-kilometres – a 20 minute pedal. 01793 700105 All of the services, facilities and amenities within Blunsdon are available within a 10 minute Recycles (refurbished bikes) cycle ride from the site. Swindon town centre is within a 30 minute cycle ride from Skylark 1 Spring Close, Swindon, Wiltshire SN1 2BF Meadow which provides a wider range of services, facilities and amenities including a number of employment opportunities. www.recycles-swindon.co.uk 01793 401834 Benefits of Cycling Hargroves Cycles 4 Improving wellbeing by relieving stress, improving fitness and burning calories Unit 9, Penzance Drive, Churchward Park, SN5 7RX 4 Helps prevent chronic and life threatening illnesses www.hargrovescycles.co.uk 4 Maintaining a bike for a year costs twenty times less than maintaining and driving a car 01793 528208 4 Reducing congestion and pollution on our roads Useful cycling apps Useful websites · Strava · www.swindontravelchoices.co.uk/cycle · MapmyRide · www.swindoncyclecampaign.org · CycleStreets journey planner Bike shops in Swindon E-motion (electric bikes) 373, Cricklade Road, SN2 1AQ http://e-motionevc.co.uk 01793 251200 Mitchell Cycles 27, Shrivenham Rd, Swindon, Wiltshire SN1 2QA www.mitchellcycles.co.uk 01793 523306 4 5 B a c k La n e B4019 Lower Village Chapel Farm Landfill d oa R d e r y Services and facilities plan n Blun ha e n La c K w n e r s ne d r e a on Buryto T v i H R ill Newth's L Cric Swi Morris Way S k m Broad Blunsdon a Mi ane lade t m ll L Purton Stoke H ee ill tr s s S L Willia id h a Hayes e n Hig e W e R H a n o Site a Knoll y a a E y r L d nes K m Stanton Fitzwarren d Eastlak in on e S P s t Ea tlak ree n W e oll t e il n t s T La hir t e h d e r e n B4019 e t W A o S v P il e li e n n n a e m u o e M e r o d r ris G Way n B4534 e i hn R Lady Lan Sheepslaight C w Jo us S o kin Road Plantation w S t r Tad eet p ne Hurstead Crosslanes y ole La A419 Bentham a th Road Blunsdon R ive r r l e r Farm e dpo e Lan Farm Ta D Farm House v ne W t e La hwo Bent B4553 Packhorse Lane Tadpol s al ha g m ne Ri l La a i e i E s v Dairy Farm North Swindon Blunsdon St D r i H Learning Bentham Packhorse Way St Andrews Turnpike Ro A361 d Andrew ane Campus L Kingsdow House Woodwardsbridge ne ar Ridge n Lane a b dy T le L (including a S d Farm adpo O m L u Roa ak a permarine s h multiple I a Road u Packhorse r d st schools) g Folly Down Ro Kin n Farm W rn ad gsdown La u oad d a e b Motorola ne s R a Farm y o d y l Stirli o Fit C Hay a w a r R o ell a rth Down Farm W Redhouse g R e o R e El d o s a hou Ash Brake a d Red rth o e kl s c Oakhurst A4198 i i w R Broadm r h oor Roa d Highw Th e s W C ame oodsid sdown Drive Ste Kingsdown Lan ig e Road H unt T p h H h ve Tham en e esdown Dr C West Marsh ri Drive so D i r e P sdown ve n n e ickla n am e R Farm r o h iv t T r o D oad Pound Farm y g Thamesdown a R in d Groundwell d s g r d opes La a a e n Crompt o i M R l G R o r Haydon End i t n a ad t Ro S o e d n i w t tre o S o d a riday Abbey Meads s t F e n g S Ri v n i Roa Pry Farm v Haydon Meadow Dr Ki m She Hyde Vi G e a e ppert scount r on ay W W a o R d y e sh n a d lden V n vi a d ves Ro a L ea B4141 a La The Pry Ha y Hargr R on d oa o a rd y a lle a L d R y Li Cl n h ommon e A419 The C rt P o New R en Key ay y oa T a h hw d W i h W k l G.Park g e o l i a d Row House l re o d D H e t r r m n ie ls i a f B oa v D Industrial E H Farm L R e Th Common s es st k uch H n H c igh lli e i n Road y e a n W o Estate o d W ydo t Queens e y de Farm C t fie a f n s own D l Food shops o y C d s ew R w W r a w ri W g Way Diana Lodge d o i W o e ort t B4534 lsham D c ay id ad Miln t E Penhill kl s Widham W R L P a a ay h a Pond n Street ew de ingsley W Malthouse K Ro e y Kingsdown r H d ive s W ad a a H o ha R R t Farm a o i m h a n o te te ha m d R a Schools rslo s a yd r Est w R o a w e o C Roa ile n a d b d o o Gol d Ju Pry Holding a G i a Paven d Taw Valley o n y d r en Valley L R l e e ei Road e y n Hill n Twee d r Stat Halt o g d f s a Close d l O i e l h L 139 m Drinking/dining e C y Haydon Wick eigh ak Stratton i r se enwo gs La n i a D Hi I e g n v h y w h Str St Margaret g W a r ee R g Ro M s i o t o D d l v r a e t l d e a Ho l Taw Hill e i e d Parish d Er i B s ina Wa tf S h m W e d eve a Grounds s a rn A Honda an ThGreenmeadow m in de L e e Th o v y Hy en Upper Stratton d Blunsdon bus stops R The Hyde u oa d S e a a Mouldon y W e l tr e R

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