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Topographical Dictionary of England, Lewis, 1831

Swinbrook, Oxfordshire

SWINBROOK, a parish in the hundred of CHADLINGTON, county of OXFORD, 2½ miles (E.) from Burford, containing 208 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, endowed with £16 per annum and £290 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £300 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Chancellor of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is partly Norman, and partly of later date, with a remarkable tower open with an arch to the west; it has some remarkable tower open with an arch to the west; it has some remains of a rood-loft and wooden screen-work. The river Windrush runs through the parish, which possesses a very considerable right in the forest of Whichwood. Mrs. Anne Pytts, in 1715, endowed a school with £30 per annum, for teaching boys of Swinbrook and the parish of Widford.