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Swincomb (St. Botolph)

SWINCOMB (St. Botolph), a parish, in the union of Henley, hundred of Ewelme, county of Oxford, 1¾ mile (N. N. W.) from Nettlebed; containing 399 inhabitants. It comprises 830 acres, of which about 200 are arable, 100 meadow and pasture, 330 down pasture, and 200 beechwood and plantation. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £7. 9. 4½., and in the gift of the Rev. C. E. Keene: the tithes have been commuted for £415, and there is a glebe-house. A school is partly supported by endowment.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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