Description
Swainswick, a parish, with a village, in Somerset, 8 miles NNE of Bath station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Bath; money order and telegraph office, Bath. Acreage, 835; population, 629. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor-house was the birthplace of Prynne, whose ears were cut off by Laud. Solsbury British camp, 600 feet above sea-level, is near the village. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; gross value, £250 with residence. Patron, Oriel College, Oxford. The church is Norman and good.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
