SWINDON, (Staffordshire) N. W. of Kings-Swinford, is one of those places on the little waters hereabouts, which have
blade-mills, where scythes, axes, reaping-hooks, &c. after being prepared for it by the white-smiths, are ground to a fine
edge, The manor formerly bel. to the Lds. Sutton, but went by marriage of the heiress to Ld. Ward.