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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Stuart Heritage

Swindon is not enough – every new housing estate deserves a Dench Close

Daniel Craig and Judi Dench in Skyfall.
Parking dispute … inspiration behind Bond Place and Dench Close. Photograph: Sony Pictures/Allstar

James Bond fans have endured a rough few years. Ever since No Time to Die walloped off Daniel Craig, we’ve been stuck in a weird kind of limbo. There will eventually be a new James Bond film, directed by Denis Villeneuve, the most exciting director in the franchise’s history. But we don’t know when it will come out, or who will play Bond, or if 007 under Amazon will even be recognisable.

In summary, we need something tangible to ground our anxieties. What we need is to pack up our things and head to north Swindon, to the site of the former Motorola manufacturing facility, where a new housing estate has just named a bunch of roads after James Bond.

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