Rodbourne

Land to the north of the Wilts and Berks Canal and the Swindon-Cheltenham railway was part of Rodbourne Cheney civil parish until 1928 when the parish was dissolved and the area transferred to Swindon municipal borough.

[3] Before the expansion of the town, Even Swindon was a hamlet just south of the canal and the Swindon-Cheltenham railway; it was a tithing of Rodbourne Cheney parish.

[4] Housing began to be built in the 1870s and in 1890 the land was transferred to the municipal borough of Swindon.

[5] As the population grew, in the 1880s a mission chapel (dependent on St Mary's) was established near the railway works, leading to the building of St Augustine's church at Summers Street, completed in 1908.

[6] Although Even Swindon still appears on some maps, by the early 21st century the area was considered to be part of Rodbourne.