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:''For the suburb of Perth, Western Australia see Swanbourne, Western Australia; Swanbourne Lake is in the grounds of Arundel Castle.'' Swanbourne is a village and also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located about two miles east of Winslow, three miles west of Stewkley, on the secondary road B4032. ==History== The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and possibly means 'swan stream'. In the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' in 792 the village was recorded as ''Suanaburna''. The manor of Swanbourne once belonged to Woburn Abbey. Swanbourne House was bought in 1798 by Thomas Fremantle (1765–1819), for his wife Elizabeth, known as Betsey, for 900 guineas.〔''The Wynne Diaries 1789–1820''. Edited and selected by Anne Fremantle. World's Classics. (London: OUP, 1952), pp. 297 ff.〕 The Fremantle family, originally from Aston Abbotts, had strong naval connections. Their eldest son Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle (1798–1890) became a prominent Tory politician. Their second son Charles (1800–1869) followed his father into the British Royal Navy and was instrumental in founding the Swan River Colony in Western Australia. This accounts for the place names Fremantle, Swanbourne and Cottesloe in the Perth area of Western Australia. Swanbourne House is still owned by the Fremantle family trust, but let (see "Schools"). The present head of the family is Commander John Tapling Fremantle, 5th Baron Cottesloe. A former Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire, he lives in the village, as does his daughter Elizabeth, the Hon. Mrs. Duncan Smith, with her husband Iain Duncan Smith, the Conservative politician. There was an agricultural strike in Swanbourne in 1873, led by members of the Primitive Methodist Chapel who were in the National Agricultural Labourer's Union (NALU). Attached to the village is the hamlet of Nearton End. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Swanbourne」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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