The Great Western Designer Outlet Village shopping centre in Swindon is now one of the town's biggest attractions. It is based at the former railway works, for which the town is famous. Shoppers travel from as far away as the Midlands and Wales to shop at the centre which has plenty of parking spaces and restaurants to cater for all tastes. Interchange connections with the M5 and M6 motorways provide through links with the Midlands and the north. Other main roads connect with Cirencester, Cheltenham, Faringdon, Oxford, and south, across the Downs through Marlborough to Salisbury, the south coast and Southampton.
Journey time is approximately one hour from the capital.
Trains run about every 30 minutes throughout the day. Trains run on to west Wales, Bath and Bristol, the Cotswolds, Cornwall and Devon and connections are available to Oxford and the Midlands from Swindon. For exact train times contact the rail enquiry line on 0345-484950. From Heathrow it is actually quicker by road to Swindon than it is to central London. From Bristol airport there are buses every half an hour to the train station, which has a direct rail link with Swindon.