Swanborough Hundred

{{Coord|51.35|-1.99|display=title|region:GB_scale:50000}}Swanborough was a hundred of the English county of Wiltshire, mostly lying in the centre of the county to the south of the town of Devizes. An area of the hundred reached several miles southwards into Salisbury Plain.

The hundred contained the parishes of Alton Barnes, Beechingstoke, All Cannings, Charlton, Great Cheverell, Little Cheverell, Chirton, Etchilhampton, Huish, Market Lavington, Manningford Abbots, Manningford Bruce, Marden, North Newnton, Rushall, Stanton St Bernard, Stert, Upavon, Urchfont, Wilcot, Wilsford, Woodborough, and Devizes.{{cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol10/pp1-7|title=Victoria County History: Wiltshire: Vol 10 pp1-7 – Swanborough Hundred|author-last1=Baggs|author-first1=A.P.|year=1975|editor-last=Crittall|editor-first=Elizabeth|website=British History Online|publisher=University of London|accessdate=25 August 2018|author-first2=D.A.|author-last2=Crowley|author-first3=Ralph B.|author-last3=Pugh|author-first4=Janet H.|author-last4=Stevenson|author-first5=Margaret|author-last5=Tomlinson}}

One of the hundred's meeting-places was Swanborough Tump, a low earthwork in the north of Manningford Abbots parish, near the boundary with Wilcot.{{cite journal|last1=Semple|first1=Sarah|last2=Langlands|first2=Alex|date=2001|title=Swanborough Tump|url=https://archive.org/details/wiltshirearchaeo9420wilt|journal=Wiltshire Archaeological & Natural History Magazine|volume=94|pages=[https://archive.org/details/wiltshirearchaeo9420wilt/page/239 239]-242|access-date=21 August 2016}} The site, now a scheduled monument,{{National Heritage List for England|num=1004743|desc=Swanborough Tump|access-date=25 August 2018|fewer-links=yes}} is described in the Victoria County History as a bowl barrow but more recently by Historic England as a medieval construction.{{cite PastScape|mnumber=221166|mname=Swanborough Tump|accessdate=25 August 2018}}

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Category:Hundreds of Wiltshire