A Schedule of Listed Buildings of Swanbourne Parish A “listed building” is one which is acknowledged by the Secretary of State to be of special architectural or historic interest. All buildings built before 1700 which survive in anything like their original condition. Most buildings from about about 1700 to 1840 are also included.  Buildings are listed […]

FREE ACCESS to PARISH RECORDS from 1565 to 1941 transcribed by Linda Rodgers (c) Copyright 2018. All downloaded transcriptions may not be reproduced elsewhere without permission. Downloads available in searchable EXCEL 2007.  (Note:- All spread sheets are protected from being changed, copied or illegally reproduced.) To search a surname in EXCEL, click on the box above the surname […]

Historic Photographs of Swanbourne People Shown below are photographs of local people and families (who can be identified as Swanbourne people), dating back to Victorian times with their family names.  Precise dates are still in the process of being identified, but they all range from around 1895 to 1950.  Click on the photograph to enlarge.         […]

The Swanbourne Agricultural Workers’ Strike of 1873 By Ken Harris For 3 weeks in March 1873, around half of the agricultural workers living in Swanbourne went on strike in a bid to raise their weekly wage from 12 shillings per week to 15 shillings. The story of the strike, its causes and its results has […]

Old Swanbourne – Photographs digitally enhanced By Clive Rodgers These photographs were shown as a PowerPoint Presentation at the Swanbourne History Group evening in April, 2016.  They are saved here as a PDF copy. old-images-of-swanbourne

 Digitally enhanced early 20th Century Photographs help to provide images better than the originals. As well as photographs of Moco farm in the 1920s, a collection of photographs from 1913 are shown.                                     Views of Swanbourne in 1913, captured on […]

The Brooks family  Based on information and photographs provided by Jennifer Littlewood, a descendant of the Brooks family from Swanbourne. The Brooks family came to Swanbourne in 1843 to run the White Hart Public House which stood just past the junction of Tattam’s Lane at Nearton End. The White Hart  is still here in the village, but is […]

Celebrations (village events) By Ken Harris Like most communities, Swanbourne has held celebrations and events marking special occasions over the years. The earliest village celebration of which we have yet found a record was for Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, which was held in Swanbourne on Thursday 9th June 1887, about which there was a very […]

Swanbourne’s connections to early American History Connections may be made from 1763 to 1824 (summarised below), with dates of major historical events included:- 1763 February 10th – The Treaty of Paris ends the 7 Year War, with Britain victorious.  Canada and Florida are ceded by France and Spain to Britain. 1767 General Patrick George Tonyn (1725–1804), the […]

Featured image – Swanbourne ladies in the 1880s. Below left:- Digitally enhanced photograph of the old Vicarage in 1858, just before it was demolished.  Previously, there only seemed to be a painting of the old Vicarage, and this photograph never seems to have been found by Ken Reading.  The newly discovered photograph has been digitally enhanced […]