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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Swanbourne like this:
SWANBOURNE, a parish, with a village, in Winslow district, Bucks; near the Oxford and Bletchley railway, 2 miles E by S of Winslow. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Winslow. Acres, 2,510. Real property, £5,034. Pop., 603. Houses, 139. The property is subdivided. The manor, with S. ...
House, belongs to Sir T. F. Fremantle, Bart. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £158.* Patron, Sir T. F. Fremantle, Bart. The church is ancient. There are a Baptist chapel, a national school with £15 a year from endowment, a straw-plaiting school, and charities £28.
Swanbourne is now part of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how BUCKINGHAMSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Swanbourne itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Swanbourne in Buckinghamshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3734
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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