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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

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

Ancient CountyLeicestershire 
Civil parishWhitwick 
HundredWest Goscote 
Poor Law unionAshby-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:


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:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Leicestershire newspapers online:

DistrictNorth West Leicestershire
CountyLeicestershire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtLE67

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