Pretty little UK village’s remarkable turnaround from no-go zone to utter delight

In the five years since the project launch, several (Image: Getty) An initiative by Swindon Borough Council and Historic England is being praised for restoring a “no-go zone” back to its former glory. The Railway Village in Swindon sits next door to the town’s famous rail works and is the world’s oldest public park, having been used as a cricket pitch in 1844. However, years of decline and neglect led to it turning into what one local resident called a “no-go area”.

91-year-old Jack Hayward told BBC Wiltshire: “I was robbed and mugged here; it was a no-go area. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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