SWINTON, a chapelry in the parish of WATH-upon-DEARN, northern division of the wapentake of STRAFFORTH-and-TICKHILL, West riding of the county of YORK, 4 miles (N, N. E.) from Rotherham, containing 1050 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of York, endowed with £SOO private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £ 600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Wath upon Dearn. The chapel, dedicated to St. Mary, has a fine Norman door. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A considerable manufacture of earthenware is carried on in this chapelry.