or King's Swinford, a village and parish of England, Staffordshire, on the Dudley and Stourbridge and Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canals, 3 miles W.S.W. of Dudley. The chief buildings are an elegant modern parish church, a chapel of ease, places of worship of Independents, Baptists, Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists. The parish occupies an extensive area, in a district rich in iron and coal, and contains many iron-works, collieries, potteries, brick and tile works, &c., with a population of 27,301.