Swaby, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Swaby, a parish with a scattered village in Lincolnshire, 3½ miles SW from Aby station on the East Lincolnshire section of the G.N.R., and 5½ WNW of Alford. It has a post office under Alford; money order and telegraph office, Alford. Acreage, 1556; population, 364. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £290 with residence. Patron, Magdalen College, Oxford. The church, which was erected in 1827, is a small building of brick, consisting of nave with apse, western porch, and bell-turret. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels. Whitepit is an adjacent hamlet.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Swaby from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Swaby (St. Nicholas))

Maps

Online maps of Swaby are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online:

• Grantham Journal
• Grimsby Daily Telegraph
• Lincolnshire Chronicle
• Lincolnshire Echo
• Lincolnshire Free Press
• Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
• Stamford Mercury

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