SWILLINGTON, a parish in the lower division of
the svapentake of SKYRACK, West riding of the county
of YORK, 6 miles (E. S. E.) from Leeds, containing
510 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of York, rated in the king's
books at £16, 1. 8., and in the patronage of Sir John
Lowther, Bart. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is
partly in the decorated, and partly in the later, style of
English architecture. Sir William Lowther, Bart., and
others, gave £92 for the erection of a school, which
the former endowed with land producing a small annuity
for teaching six poor children.