This extract is from "Samuel Lewis Topographical Gazeetter - 1831"
SWINESHEAD, a parish in the hundred of LEIGHTONSTONE, county of HUNTINGDON, though locally in the hundred of Stodden, county of Bedford, 3½ miles (S.W. by W.) from Kimbolton, containing 245 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £12.13.6½, and in the patronage of the Duke of Manchester. The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas.