Swell, Upper
SWELL, UPPER, a parish, in the union of Stowon-the-Wold, Upper division of the hundred of Kiftsgate, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 1 mile (N.W.) from Stow; containing 80 inhabitants. The parish is on the road between Stow and Tewkesbury, and comprises about 1294 acres, of which the surface is hilly, and the soil a thin earth resting upon oolitic limestone. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king's books at £6. 14. 6.; net income, £85; patron, Charles Pole, Esq.: the tithes were commuted at the inclosure for a modus, and there is a parsonage-house, with a glebe of about 7 acres. The church was partly rebuilt in 1815. The Roman Fosse-way bounds the parish on the east.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.