Swannington, Leicestershire
Historical Description
Swannington, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1875, in the civil parish of Whitwick,. Leicestershire. The village stands on the Leicester and Burton-on-Trent branch of the M.R., in a valley encompassed by gently rising hills and well watered by several fine springs,. 3½ miles E by S of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Leicester; money order and telegraph office, Whitwick. The township comprises 1577 acres; population, 1711; of the ecclesiastical parish, 1654. The manor belongs to Wyggestone's Hospital, Leicester. Coal abounds, and is largely worked. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £140 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Whitwick. The church is a very plain building of brick, consisting of nave and bell-turret only. There are Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Leicestershire | |
Civil parish | Whitwick | |
Hundred | West Goscote | |
Poor Law union | Ashby-de-la-Zouch |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Swannington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Swannington)
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Leicestershire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Swannington 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 Leicestershire newspapers online: