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"SWERFORD, a parish in the hundred of Chadlington, county Oxford, 5 miles N.W. of Road Enstone, and 5 N. E. of Chipping-Norton. The village is on the river Snere. On Castle Hill are traces of ancient earthworks. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford, value £496, in the patronage of Magdalen College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. The parochial charities produce about £1 per annum. There is a free school for girls. R. Davis, Esq., is lord of the manor."

"SHOWELL, a chapelry in the parish of Swerford, hundred of Chadlington, county Oxford, 2.5 miles N.E. of Chipping-Norton."

[The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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