The Swanswick Great House is in Trelawny, Jamaica (see aerial photo of Clarks Town area). Like Hyde Hall and Oxford, it is owned by Long Pond Estates Ltd and is used by the one of the Long Pond managers.
There is also a "camphouse" used by Long Pond workers which is now in poor condition, having been damaged by the 1944 hurricane and been unsympathetically rebuilt.
Mr. G.M. Clarke who owned the Swanswick Estate gave land for the establishment of ClarksTown in the post -emancipation period.
At one time there were ten sugar factories in the area: the
Jamaica Almanack 1829 shows that all the properties surrounding
present-day Clarks Town belonged to the Clarke family.
The Jamaica Almanac 1840 reports that it consisted of 1504 acres
and belonged to the heirs of George Clarke.
The Anglican Church on the "square" in Clarks Town was built on lands donated by the Clarkes of Swanswick and consecrated in 1839 (just after Emancipation). It was then known as Swanswick Church but the name has since been changed to the inappropriate "St Michael's Church".
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