Swindon is a very inconsiderable parish, 2 miles or rather more, N.N.W. from Cheltenham. The church is dedicated to Saint Lawrence: the living, some years since, was in the gift of the Rev. William Rommey.
Slater's Commercial Directory of Cheltenham, 1858-59
Swindon, a parish in the hundred of Cheltenham, county Gloucester, 2 miles N.W. of Cheltenham, its post town. The village is situated on the road from Cheltenham to Tewkesbury, near the line of the Birmingham and Gloucester railway. The land is principally in pasture and orchard. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £479. The church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, is an ancient Norman structure.
National Gazetteer, 1868
Swindon, a parish in Cheltenham district, Gloucester; 2 miles NNW of Cheltenham r. station. It has a postal letter-box under Cheltenham. Acres, 721. Real property, £2,499. Pop., 227. houses, 43. The manor belongs to H. S. Stratford, Esq. S. Hall is the seat of J. S. Surman, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £479.* Patron, J. S. Surman, Esq. The church is Norman and early English, and was recently restored. There is a national school of 1863.
John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72
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