SWELL (LOWER), a parish in the upper division of the hundred of SLAUGHTER, county of GLOUCESTER, 1 mile (W.) from Stow on the Wold, containing 263 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester, rated in the king's books at £6.12. 3., and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.