Swynnerton or Swinnerton, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Swynnerton or Swinnerton, a village and a parish in Staffordshire. The village stands 2 miles E by N of Standon Bridge station on the L. & N.W.R., and 4 NW by W of Stone. It was once a market-town, and has a post office under Stone; money order and telegraph office, Stone. The parish includes the village and township of Yarnfield, the hamlets of Shelton and Hatton, and part of the township of Beech. Acreage, 6481; population of the civil parish, 880; of the ecclesiastical, 674. The manor belonged anciently to the Swinnertons, and went in the time of Henry VIII. to the Fitzherberts. Swynnerton Park, a handsome stone mansion, is the seat of the Fitzherbert family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £925 with residence. The church is chiefly Decorated, with portions of Norman and Early English work, and has been restored. There is a Roman Catholic chapel.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Swynnerton or Swinnerton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Swinnerton (St. Mary))

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Staffordshire is online.

Maps

Online maps of Swynnerton or Swinnerton are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Staffordshire newspapers online:

• Staffordshire Advertiser
• Tamworth Herald
• Lichfield Mercury
• Staffordshire Sentinel
• Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser

Villages, Hamlets, &c