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Swithland, Leicestershire

Historical Description

Swithland, a parish, with a village, in Leicestershire, 2¼ miles SW of Mountsorrel, 4 WSW of Sileby station on the main line of the M.R., and 6 S from Loughborough. It has a post office under Loughborough; money order and telegraph office, Woodhouse Eaves. Acreage, 1145; population, 213. The manor, with Swithland Hall, a fine mansion standing on an eminence amidst a beautiful park, and most of the land, belongs to the Earl of Lanesborough. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £200 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, S aisle, private chapel of the Danvers-Butler family, Earls of Lanesborough, and an embattled western tower. There is a Wesleyan chapel. Excellent blue slate is found in this parish in considerable quantities.

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 
Ecclesiastical parishSwithland St. Leonard 
HundredWest Goscote 
Poor Law unionBarrow-upon-Soar 

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


Church Records

Findmypast, in association with the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland, have the following parish records online for Swithland:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1700-19161754-18171700-19311700-1991

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Swithland 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 Swithland 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:

DistrictCharnwood
CountyLeicestershire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtLE12
Post TownLoughborough

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