Description
Swingfield, a parish, with a village, in Kent, 4 miles from Kearsney station on the L.C. & D.R., and 5 N of Folkestone. Post town, Canterbury. Acreage, 2639; population, 390. There is a parish council consisting of five members. A preceptory of the Knights of St John was founded here in the time of Henry II., and has left interesting remains. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Hawkinge, in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £60. The church is good, and was restored in 1889. There is a Bible Christian chapel. Bishop Richard de Swingfield, who died in 1316, was a native.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
