Talk:Shrivenham

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Trivia section moved here

Trivia are by definition not encyclopædic so I deleted them from the article. It does seem to me, however, that some of this stuff is not at all trivial and could be properly incorporatd within the article proper. So I am moving the section here:

Old trivia section

Shrivenham station was the site of railway accident in January 1936, when an express from Penzance ran into some coal wagons that had become detached from an earlier train just outside the station.
The Automobile Association reports the driving time to Swindon as about 15 minutes, and the driving time to Oxford as about 35-40 minutes.
A common element of confusion is that Shrivenham has the Swindon postal code and Swindon telephone area code, despite being located in a different county Oxfordshire rather than Wiltshire.
HMS Shrivenham was a Ham class minesweeper.

i think that the triva section was an integeral part of the shrivenham page and more trivia should be added.84.64.192.141 20:27, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Distance to Swindon

I'm puzzling over the given "distance to Swindon" figure of 11km; can anyone think how this number has been arrived at? Measuring between the western edge of Shrivenham and the eastern edge of the Swindon urban area is less than 5km as the bird flies. Even taking a more conservative measurement of the distance between the Shrivenham village hall and the Swindon Civic Offices only gets you to 9km. I guess it must be the distance for a given driving route, but which route and between which points is unclear. I'm inclined to remove it unless there is a citable source for distance, which I've not been able to find so far. Patch86UK (talk) 15:42, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I would go with 9km. Centre to centre as the crow flies is right, and we don't need sources for distances that can be verified on a map. -- Wire723 (talk) 17:29, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]