Bucks Series A-Z.....S Traditional Cache
Smithbats: We are archiving the series as they naturally decline
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After seeing many other Alphabetical series, we decided to do our
own for our corner of the county of Buckinghamshire.
The caches all vary, some are bigger than others, but none are
micros and all have room for swaps.
Swanbourne is a village and also a civil parish within Aylesbury
Vale district in Buckinghamshire. It is located 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. Swanbourne Baptist Church, in Mursley Road,
was built in 1809, rebuilt in 1863 and closed in 1972, when it
converted to a dwelling.
Swanbourne Methodist Church is in Nearton End. The first Chapel was
built for the Primitive Methodists in 1858 and a new one was built
in 1907.
A new pub called "The Betsey Wynne" opened at the end of July 2006.
It is on the Mursley Road.
Until 1967, Swanbourne had its own railway station on the Varsity
Line, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the village and half way to
Little Horwood. It was also about the same distance from
Mursley.
We have resited this as the area the original was in has been
destroyed.
Additional Hints
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