SYWELL, a parish in the hundred of HAMFORDSHOE, county of NORTHAMPTON, 5 miles (W.) from Wellingborough, containing 265 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £11. 1. 5., and in the patronage of Earl Brownlow. The church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. ,