SWINERTON, (Staffordshire) on the W. side of Stone, was a long time in a family of its own name, till the heiress carried it by marriage, first to Sir Will. Fitzherbert, and then to Fran. Gattarre; but the Broughtons have had it a good while, who held it of the Bp. of Litchfield's manor of Eccleshal, by the 3d part of a Kt's fee, and other services. The first of the Swinertons, we have any account of, obtained a Mt. here in the R. of Edw. I. on W. and a Fair on the Assumption of the Virgin Mary; the former of which has been long disused. There is variety of marl in the soil hereabouts, which is excellent manure; and this place, with the hill country bet. it and Trentham, being most free from waters, mines, and woods, is reckoned the healthiest part of the Co.