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The Highworth and Swindon Poor Law Union was formed on November 23rd, 1835. It was renamed the "Swindon & Highworth Poor Law Union" in 1895.
The populations of the parishes involved varied considerably; Draycot Foliat possessing only 19 while Highworth haveing a population of 3,127.
The Swindon & Highworth Poor Law Union included the Wiltshire parishes of Bishopstone, Blunsdon St Andrew, Castle Eaton, Chiseldon, Draycot Foliat, Hannington, Highworth, Hinton Parva (Little Hinton), Inglesham, Liddington, Rodbourne Cheney, Stanton Fitzwarren, Stratton St Margaret, Swindon, Wanborough and Wroughton. South Marston joined the Union in 1894 and Haydon Wick in 1929.
It was decided that the workhouse at Highworth was the only building suitable to house the poor and the
Poor Law Commissioners approved expenditure of �850 on alteration and enlargement of the building to comply with the requirements of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act to accomadte up to 80 inmates.
The workouse of the Poor Law Union was built of brick and stone in 1847 on the east side of Highworth Road, Stratton St Margaret, 2.5 miles from Swindon to hold up to 460 inmates. Shown on the 1924 OS map as the "Swindon and Highworth Poor Law Institution", the main building was in the shape of a "T" - the male inmates housed in the north wing and the females in the south with the kitchens and dining hall in the centre wing at the rear. The infirmary block lay behind the main buildings, to the east.
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In 1911, the population of the 53,986 acres covered by the Union was 65,890, and its rateable value on Lady Day 1915 was £ 334,069.
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In 1900, a new infirmary was built to the east of the main buildings; male and female pavilions to the north and south were separated by an administrative block in between.
| | | | The former workhouse buildings were turned into St Margaret's General Hospital in 1930. In the 1990's the site was redeveloped into a housing estate leading to the demolition of the main buildings but the wings of the infrimary survived.
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