Swanbourne, Buckinghamshire

Description
Swanbourne, a parish, with a village, in Bucks, near the Oxford and Bletchley branch of the L. & N.W.R., 2 miles E by S of Winslow, and 9 SE from Buckingham. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Winslow; money order and telegraph office, Winslow. Acreage, 2552; population, 429. There is a parish council of nine members and a chairman. The manor, with Swanbourne House, a large mansion of white brick standing in a park of 80 acres, and most of the land, belongs to Lord Cottesloe. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £200 with residence, in the gift of Lord Cottesloe. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, S porch, and an embattled western tower. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels.