The civil parish of Swallowfield also includes the nearby villages of Riseley and Farley Hill.

Swallowfield has a site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) on the south western edge of the village, called Stanford End Mill and River Loddon[2] The village has a local nature reserve called Swallowfield Meadow.

[3] Swallowfield Park is a stately home situated in an estate half a mile north east of the village.

[4] Swallowfield has been the home of a number of famous persons including Thomas 'Diamond' Pitt, the Governor of Fort St. George;[5] William Backhouse, the Rosicrucian philosopher;[6] Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon;[7] and, in his childhood, Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon.

[8] The 19th century author Mary Russell Mitford retired to the village and is buried in the churchyard.