Swinderby
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Swinderby is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, just north of the A46 road, south-west of Lincoln and north-east of Newark. Swinderby lies within a rural agricultural community and covers an area of . The population was 648 (including HM Prison Morton Hall) at the 2011 census.
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Place details
- Locality
- North Kesteven
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 491
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Swinderby
- UK place.static_image_name
- All saints' church, Swinderby, Lincs. - geograph.org.uk - 68613.jpg
- UK place.static_image_alt
- Church with substantial tower under a sky of duck-egg blue, with a large Yew on the right., a very dark green. The tower is broad, but barely higher than the deeply pitched roof on the nave. It has a clockface on the nearest side.
- UK place.static_image_caption
- All Saints' Church, Swinderby
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SK 8662
- UK place.population
- 648
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.shire_district
- North Kesteven
- UK place.shire_county
- Lincolnshire
- UK place.region
- East Midlands
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Sleaford and North Hykeham
- UK place.post_town
- LINCOLN
- UK place.postcode_district
- LN6
- UK place.postcode_area
- LN
- UK place.dial_code
- 01522
- UK place.london_distance_mi
- 120
- UK place.london_direction
- S
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Swinderby is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, just north of the A46 road, south-west of Lincoln and north-east of Newark. Swinderby lies within a rural agricultural community and covers an area of . The population was 648 (including HM Prison Morton Hall) at the 2011 census.
==History== The name 'Swinderby' is assumed to have originated either from "sundri + by" (southern farmstead or village), or "svin + djur + by" (farmstead where pigs are kept); in the Domesday Book of 1086 it is referred to as "Sunderby" and "Suindrebi".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Swinderby” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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