A grant of land was made to Woburn Abbey in 1201."Parishes : Swanbourne" Victoria History of the Counties of England, A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 3 (1927), pp. 427–432. The first vicar of the parish arrived in 1218 and the parish church was dedicated in 1230. The abbey was dissolved in 1538 and its lands were later sold by the Crown.History of Swanbourne: key dates
