Swinstead, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Swinstead, a parish, with a pleasant village, in Lincolnshire, 3 miles SE of Corby station on the G.N.R. main line, and 7 WNW of Bourne. It has a post office under Bourne; money order and telegraph office, Corby. Acreage, 1789; population, 343. The manor belongs to the Earl of Ancaster. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £150. Patron, the Earl of Ancaster. The church, dedicated to St Mary, is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and an embattled western tower.
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 | Swinstead St. Mary | |
Poor Law union | Bourne | |
Wapentake | Beltisloe |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Swinstead:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1733-1871 | 1733-1910 | 1733-1911 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Swinstead from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Swinstead (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of Swinstead 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: