Swinderby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Swinderby, a parish, with a pleasant village, in Lincolnshire, on the Nottingham and Lincoln branch of the M.R., 6½ miles NE by N of Newark, and 9 SW from Lincoln. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Lincoln; money order and telegraph office, Collingham. Acreage, 2192; population, 470. The manor belongs to the Curtis family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £206 with residence. The church is an ancient edifice of stone, chiefly Norman, consisting of apsidal chancel with organ chamber, nave, N aisle, S porch, and an embattled western tower. It has a brass of 1613. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Swinderby All Saints | |
Poor Law union | Newark | |
Wapentake | Boothby-Graffo |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Swinderby 1562-1812, Lincolnshire is available to browse online.
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Swinderby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1568-1911 | 1754-1811 | 1568-1911 | 1568-1910 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Swinderby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Swinderby (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Swinderby 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: