A brief history of Swainswick: a talk by Dr Virginia Bainbridge

Reference Number: PP/2556
Level of Description: Item
Title: A brief history of Swainswick: a talk by Dr Virginia Bainbridge
Creator(s) & Administrative History: Bainbridge, Virginia: Author
Date: 2016
Extent: Pages: 16
Description: Print-out of a talk given on Swainswick History Afternoon on Sat 3rd December 2016 in the church of St. Mary the Virgin, Upper Swainswick covering the architectural, religious, social and economic history of the village (Swainswick church, pp. 2-4; William Prynne, seventeenth-century puritan pamphleteer and M. P for Bath, pp. 4-5; Farming and agriculture from medieval times, pp. 5-8; schools and education, pp. 8-9; Swainswick houses, pp. 9-12; as a suburb of Bath, pp. 13-14).

Also includes the following unpublished items:

1. Swainswick history trail: some famous residents (Brief accounts of famous Swainswick residents including William Prynne, puritan pamphleteer, John Wood the Elder and John Wood the Younger, architects, Francis Lockey, photographer, Leonard Jenyns, and naturalist, Rev. John Earle, philologist)

2. Lower Swainswick-When was your street built?

3. A short list of road/street names in Lower Swainswick giving dates and, for some streets, brief details of construction
Subject: Biography
Church history
Etymology
Farming
Houses
Manors
Poetry
Schools