page_title: Swaythling
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Swaythling / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Ethelburt Avenue, Southampton Ethelburt Avenue is part of the Bassett Green Estate, a Garden Village, designed by Herbert Collins
context_page_description: Swaythling is a suburb and electoral ward of the city of Southampton in Hampshire, England. The ward has a population of 13,664.
  Swaythling is predominantly residential in character, and noted for its large student population due to its proximity to the University of Southampton main campus at Highfield. The university's Wessex Lane Halls and City Gateway housing facilities are located within the district.
  Swaythling during the First World War was the location of the Swaythling Remount Depot and prior to its closure in 2013, the Ford Motor Company Southampton Assembly Plant.
context_section_description: Swaythling is a northern suburban district in the city of Southampton and borders (clockwise from South) Portswood, Highfield, Bassett, Eastleigh, Mansbridge and Townhill Park.  Predominantly low-lying in terms of elevation, the ward boundary to the east is defined by Monks Brook and the Itchen River. The northern section of the Swaythling district is bisected in part by the M27 motorway.
  The stream that gave the area its name is largely hidden from view as it runs through Swaythling, although it can still be seen next to the Fleming Arms pub (now owned by the Greene King Brewery, the Fleming Arms used to be a Beefeater restaurant until a fire led to the sale of the property).  The Shell petrol station serving Thomas Lewis Way stands on the site of a cinema that fronted onto High Road.
  The historical village of Swaythling is now extensively suburban in character with much of the area used for residential housing.  High Road, which was the village's high street, has waned in popularity recently with several established businesses, such as Dunning's grocery store, having shut down. High Road today is dominated by take-away food outlets and a couple of newsagents.  The Old Black Cat (The Hampton Park Hotel) pub was turned into a McDonald's restaurant in the late 1990s.
caption: Herbert Collins houses in Ethelburt Avenue
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