title: Swinford Preceptory
text: # Swinford Preceptory
  
  Swinford Preceptory is a former monastery of the Knights Hospitaller located near to the village of Swinford, Leicestershire.
  
  ## History
  
  The preceptory was founded before 1199, with land at Swinford donated to the Knights Hospitaller by Robert Rivell.
  
  Only a small preceptory, it was under the control of Dalby Preceptory before 1220. By 1338, however, the preceptory had become a "camera" (a lesser establishment dependent upon another), under the administration of a seneschal and bailiff.
  
  The Knights Hospitaller in England were disbanded in 1540, and their preceptories dissolved as part of King Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries.
  
  