Swindon Victorian Turkish Baths, in Swindon, England, were initially opened in Taunton Street by the GWR Medical Society Fund in 1868. In 1906, the fund replaced them with Victorian Turkish baths in their new medical centre in Faringdon Road. In 1948, when the fund's medical services were replaced by the NHS, management of the baths passed to Swindon Borough Council, who later outsourced them. The baths are uniquely important, since despite changing locations and managements, they are the oldest continuously running baths institution of their type in the British Isles and the world.
The present building is a Grade II* listed building. The Turkish baths entrance in Milton Road currently leads to the Swindon Health Hydro, which, until the recent closure of the baths for refurbishment, managed the baths as one of the hydro's major facilities.
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