Swinbrook

Swinbrook is an attractive Cotswold village located a few miles from Burford in the English county of Oxfordshire. coord|51|48|24.22|N|1|35|40.31|W|.

Its church, sporting an unusual open-sided bell-tower, is famous for its 17th century Fettiplace monuments. The village houses the grave of the novelist Nancy Mitford, and those of her sisters Unity, Diana and Pamela.

The village is incorporated into the civil parish of Swinbrook and Widford, part of the West Oxfordshire District; Widford being a neighbouring hamlet which in mediaeval times was a substantial village; aside from the few remaining houses, there survives just the ancient church of St Oswald in a field that shows the characteristic crop-marks of deserted dwellings.

Swinbrook has a superb cricket club, set in the heart of the countryside, with beautiful surrondings.

Local heroes:Tom Webster, Skodey