Description
Swyre, a parish in Dorsetshire, on the coast, 3 1/2 miles from Abbotsbury station on the G.W.R. Post town, Abbotsbury. Acreage, 1129; population, 154. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £140 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Bedford. The church is good.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
Parish Church
The church of the Holy Trinity, restored about 1830, is a building of stone in the Early English style, and consists of chancel, nave, north porch and tower containing 2 bells: a vestry was added in 1885, at the sole expense of the Rev. Orlando Spencer-Smith M.A. rector 1878-88: there are 100 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1587.
