Following a Community Governance Review in 2017,[4] four new parishes were created on 1 April, covering all of Swindon's non-parished area.

The eastern boundary with Nythe, Eldene and Liden parish largely follows the Dorcan Stream (a small tributary of the River Cole).

South Swindon Parish Council delivers an events service which operates year round across the parish, although the main focus is events in the Town Gardens in Swindon's Old Town.

The parish is also home to Coate Water Country Park, which is maintained by Swindon Borough Council.

The former farmhouse at Coate, where the nature writer Richard Jefferies was born in 1848, is operated as a museum by a small charity.

[17] The parish directly operates community centres in Badbury Park and at Broadgreen in Swindon Central.

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