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St Margaret and South Marston (ward)

ward in Swindon, Wiltshire

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 23, 2024
Entity authorityQ130858096 ↗
Source-derived summary

St Margaret and South Marston is an electoral ward in the Borough of Swindon, England. Since 2012, the ward has elected three councillors to Swindon Borough Council.

History

The ward was created in 2012.

Geography

The ward covers the areas of St Margaret and South Marston. The ward is part of the Swindon North parliamentary constituency.

Demographics

In the 2021 census, the population of the ward was 11,577.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “St Margaret and South Marston (ward)” is ward in Swindon, Wiltshire. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Margaret, South and Marston, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Margaret, South and Marston is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “ward in Swindon, Wiltshire” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 23, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q130858096. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2012 and 2021.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “St Margaret and South Marston (ward)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.