Swainswick, Somerset Family History Guide

Swainswick is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1557
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

• Langridge
• Weston
• Walcot St Saviour
• Batheaston
• Bathwick with Woolley
• Charlcombe
• Cold Ashton
• Bathampton

Historical Descriptions

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SWAINSWICK, a parish, with a village, in Bath district, Somerset; 3 miles NNE of Bath r. station. Post town, Bath. Acres, 845. Real property, £4,160. Pop., 632. Houses, 131. The property is subdivided. The manor-house was the birthplace of Prynne, whose ears were cut off by Land. Solsbury British camp, 600 feet above sea-level, is near the village. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £220. Patron, Oriel College, Oxford. The church is Norman and good. There is a parochial school.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Administration

• County: Somerset
• Civil Registration District: Bath
• Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Bath and Wells (Episcopal Consistory)
• Diocese: Bath and Wells
• Rural Deanery: Bath
• Poor Law Union: Bath
• Hundred: Bath Forum
• Province: Canterbury