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This is WiltshireRailway Village, which was last year voted the country's favourite conservation area, is getting a boost today
Swindon Borough Council and Historic England are, at this moment, formally launching launched a Heritage Action Zone to protect and revitalise Railway Village, an area of Victorian housing and institutional buildings centred around the railway station and lines.
The five-year scheme will bring heritage expertise and £1.6 million of funding from Historic England, who will work with the council and other partners to revitalise
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Positive comment from the Mechanics Institution Trust later in the article, but no indication that the Institute is within scope