Swinbrook

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Swinbrook
St. Mary's, Swinbrook, Oxfordshire.jpg
St. Mary the Virgin parish church
Swinbrook is located in Oxfordshire
Swinbrook
Swinbrook
 Swinbrook shown within Oxfordshire
Population 135 (parish, with Widford) (2011 Census)
OS grid reference SP2812
Civil parish Swinbrook and Widford
District West Oxfordshire
Shire county Oxfordshire
Region South East
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Burford
Postcode district OX18
Dialling code 01993
Police Thames Valley
Fire Oxfordshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
UK Parliament Witney
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Swinbrook is a village on the River Windrush, about 2 miles (3 km) east of Burford in Oxfordshire, England. The village is in the civil parish of Swinbrook and Widford. Widford is a hamlet about Lua error in Module:Convert at line 452: attempt to index field 'titles' (a nil value). west of Swinbrook. The 2011 Census recorded Swinbrook and Widford's parish population as 139.[1]

History

One of the Fettiplace monuments in St Mary the Virgin parish church

The Church of England parish church of Saint Mary the Virgin dates from about 1200.[2] Its unusual open-sided bell-tower was added in 1822.[2] The church is noted for its 17th-century Fettiplace monuments.[3]

David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale had Swinbrook House built 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of the village.[4] Four of his six daughters are buried in the parish churchyard: Nancy, Unity, and Diana are buried side by side, while Pamela is buried northwest of the tower.[5]

St Mary's has also a monument to the officers and men of the Royal Navy submarine HMS P514, and especially its commander, Lieutenant W.A. Phillimore, whose parents lived at Swinbrook. In 1942 P514 failed to identify herself to the Royal Canadian Navy minesweeper HMCS Georgian. The Canadian ship therefore assumed the submarine to be an enemy vessel and rammed P514, sinking her with the loss of all hands.

Swinbrook Cricket Club[6] has two teams. They play in division 5 and 10 respectively of the Oxfordshire Cricket Association.[7]

References

HMS P514 monument in St Mary the Virgin parish church
  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 799.
  3. ↑ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 800.
  4. ↑ Ottewell 1999, p. 71.
  5. ↑ Pearson 2004, p. 93.
  6. ↑ Swinbrook Cricket Club
  7. ↑ Oxfordshire Cricket Association

Sources and further reading

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