SWALLOWFIELD, a parish partly in the hundred
of CHARLTON, county of BERKS, but chiefly in the
hundred of AMESBURY, county of WILTS, 6 miles (S.
by E.) from Reading, containing 983 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of
Shinfield, in the archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of
Salisbury. The church is dedicated to All Saints. -There
is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A fair
is held here on June 9th. The celebrated Lord Chancellor
Clarendon, after his retirement from public life
resided at the manor-house, then the property of his.
son, where he wrote "The History of the Rebellion."