{"id":580212,"date":"2026-05-12T17:44:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/580212\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T17:44:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:44:31","slug":"swindon-streets-named-after-towns-role-in-james-bond-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/580212\/","title":{"rendered":"Swindon streets named after town&#8217;s role in James Bond film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A number of streets on a new housing estate have been given James Bond-related names to honour a town&#8217;s ties to the film franchise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Robin Gardens development in Swindon, Wiltshire, has had its roads named after actors who starred in the The World Is Not Enough in 2001. It is after the town&#8217;s former Motorola building, now a base for Vygon UK, appeared very briefly in the film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Names include Bond Place and Dench Close, after Dame Judi Dench who played M, the head of MI6 &#8211; after Swindon Borough Council was approached by developer Taylor Wimpey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Dan Adams, who came up with the theme along with councillor Jake Chandler, said they did it &#8220;so that little bit of history wasn&#8217;t lost&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A number of streets on a new housing estate have been given James Bond-related names to honour a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-580212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}