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Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Swillington

Other OS name in the Parish of Halifax

Etymology

, cf. Swillington in Mytholmroyd 168supra ; there is a spring at this farmstead , and the first el . could formally be from OE  swiling ' swilling, washing ' , v. tūn .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name