Swanbourne

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Swanbourne

TitleSwanbourne

CountyBuckinghamshire

CoordinatesLat : 51.9333333 Lon : -0.8333333

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Description Incorrect Description? Tell Us!Swanbourne is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Aylesbury Vale, about two miles east of Winslow, three miles west of Stewkley.

The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and possibly means 'swan stream'. In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 792 the village was recorded as Suanaburna.

The manor of Swanbourne used to belong to Woburn Abbey, but now belongs to the Fremantle family. The Fremantle family, originally from Aston Abbotts, have a strong naval tradition. Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle (1798–1890) had huge interests in Australia which is why there is a Fremantle, Swanbourne and Cottesloe named for him in Western Australia. He was later created 1st Baron Cottesloe. Various members of the Fremantle family now live in more modest houses in the village.

The large manor house still owned by the Fremantle family trust is now a prep school called Swanbourne House School.

The present head of the family is Commander John Tapling Fremantle, 5th Baron Cottesloe. Lord Cottesloe, a former Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire still lives in the village, as does his daughter Elizabeth, the Hon. Mrs. Duncan Smith with her husband Iain Duncan Smith, the Conservative politician.

There was an agricultural strike in Swanbourne in 1873, led by members of the Primitive Methodist Chapel who were in the National Agricultural Labourer's Union (NALU).

Swanbourne has a shop in Mursley Road, St Swithun's Anglican Church and a Methodist Chapel in Nearton End. There was also once a Baptist Chapel in Mursley Road which was converted to a dwelling.

A new pub called "The Betsey Wynne" opened at the end of July 2006. It is on the Mursley Road.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Swanbourne"

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Local Campsites

Toc H Rickmansworth Campsite is 3.82 Miles away
Cosgrove Leisure Park is 9.82 Miles away
Newport Pagnell Campsite is 11.77 Miles away

Local Tourist Attractions

Claydon House is 5.29 Miles away
Ascott Estate is 5.83 Miles away
WADDESDON MANOR is 7.7 Miles away
Leighton Buzzard Railway Ltd is 7.86 Miles away
National Trust Kings Head Inn is 8.15 Miles away
Stowe House is 10.38 Miles away
Woburn Abbey is 10.59 Miles away
Middleton Swimming Pool is 11.48 Miles away
Eversholt Swimming Pool is 11.73 Miles away

Local Golf Courses

Aylesbury Vale Golf Club is 3.9 Miles away
Leighton Buzzard Golf Club is 7.08 Miles away
Abbey Hill Golf Centre is 7.68 Miles away
Woburn Golf Club is 8.15 Miles away
Buckingham Golf Club is 8.95 Miles away
Weston Turville Golf Club is 9.03 Miles away
Aspley Guise & Woburn Sands Golf Club is 10.01 Miles away
Tilsworth Golf Club is 11.12 Miles away
Chiltern Forest Golf Club is 11.67 Miles away
Ellesborough Golf Club is 12.6 Miles away

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