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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 in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Aylesbury Vale, about two miles east of Winslow, three miles west of Stewkley. 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 used to belong to Woburn Abbey, but now belongs to the Fremantle family. The Fremantle family, originally from Aston Abbotts, have a strong naval tradition. Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle (1798–1890) had huge interests in Australia which is why there is a Fremantle, Swanbourne and Cottesloe named for him in Western Australia. He was later created 1st Baron Cottesloe. Various members of the Fremantle family now live in more modest houses in the village. The large manor house still owned by the Fremantle family trust is now a ... Read more about Swanbourne on Wikipedia

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