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Survey of English Place-Names

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All Saints' Church

Other OS name in the Parish of Swinford

Historical Forms

  • Church (All Saints) 1846,1863,1877 White 1925 Kelly
  • ecclesie de Suyneford 1220 MHW
  • ecclesiam parochialem de Swynford 1489 Pat
  • ecclesiam Omnium Sanctorum de Swynford 1548 ib
  • ecclesiarum de Swineford et Walcote 1560 ib
  • the Church yard 1803 ib

Etymology

Church (All Saints )1846, 1863, 1877 White, 1925Kelly; it is earlier recorded as ecclesie de Suyneford 1220 MHW,ecclesiam parochialem de Swynford 1489Pat (with MLat  parochialis 'parochial'), ecclesiam Omnium Sanctorum de Swynford 1548ib ; and inecclesiarum de Swineford et Walcote 1560ib . Note also the Church yard 1803ib , v. churchyerd .