"In other words, if there's a 14th century map or reference somewhere that shows the Swallowhead Spring written either as Swolowen Head or as Swalu Head, it might settle the matter one way or t'other (I'll go and get me anorak now :-)"
Please can I give up now and just offer my last bit of evidence.... you'll never get to the bottom of it, but your photograph is beautiful especially as it accompanies saxon words...
Andrew and Dury's map 1773 shows it as Swallow Head Spring, sadly they seem to have got the Avenue between WKLB and EKLB in a field called Stoneyfield miles from Avebury, the "Old Monastery supposed by antiquarians to be a Druid's temple"; so you can't place much faith in them ;)
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12th November 2006ce
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Re: The Swallowhead (Littlestone)