Very impressive.
Top 3 attractions that visiting fans should head for in Swindon, anyone?
Well.... include say a 10 or so mile radius and depending in where you're coming from and how... and also what floats your boat, there's plenty
My last Yeovil trip, incorporated a visit to a local church, which had some interesting stained glass, which is a thing of mine. If similarly minded, you could easily detour to Fairford if coming from the north.
More niche and if in the Town Centre, then the Museum of Computing is open on a Saturday. More obvious attractions Steam Museum and Old Town Art Gallery and Museum. The current exhibition in the AG is decent....
Couple of Lowrys... Graham Sutherland Ben Nicholson and some interesting new stuff
Again niche, but some might be tempted by Ian Fleming's grave at Sevenhampton.... if in literary vein, perhaps get a Shelley vibe in Lechlade churchyard..
The wind has swept from the wide atmosphere
Each vapour that obscured the sunset's ray,
And pallid Evening twines its beaming hair
In duskier braids around the languid eyes of Day:
Silence and Twilight, unbeloved of men,
Creep hand in hand from yon obscurest glen.
They breathe their spells towards the departing day,
Encompassing the earth, air, stars, and sea;
Light, sound, and motion, own the potent sway,
Responding to the charm with its own mystery.
The winds are still, or the dry church-tower grass
Knows not their gentle motions as they pass.
Thou too, aerial pile, whose pinnacles
Point from one shrine like pyramids of fire,
Obey'st I in silence their sweet solemn spells,
Clothing in hues of heaven thy dim and distant spire,
Around whose lessening and invisible height
Gather among the stars the clouds of night.
The dead are sleeping in their sepulchres:
And, mouldering as they sleep, a thrilling sound,
Half sense half thought, among the darkness stirs,
Breathed from their wormy beds all living things around,
And, mingling with the still night and mute sky,
Its awful hush is felt inaudibly.
Thus solemnized and softened, death is mild
And terrorless as this serenest night.
Here could I hope, like some enquiring child
Sporting on graves, that death did hide from human sight
Sweet secrets, or beside its breathless sleep
That loveliest dreams perpetual watch did keep.
After Lechlade, Highworth church is interesting, with its Civil War canon ball hole in the wall, and I suppose if coming from the north and being a Civil War type.... Burford church would be a must do.
https://www.burfordchurch.org/the-levellers/Sadly the Richard Jefferies Museum at Coate is summer opening only