SWANWICK, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Alfreton sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2749 |
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Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Andrew.
- The church was built in 1860.
- The church seats 450.
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Church Records
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1861.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Alfreton.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Alfreton sub-district of the Belper Registration District.br />
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Description and Travel
"SWANWICK is a hamlet, in the parish of Alfreton, about a mile and a half S.W. from that town. There are places of worship for baptists and Wesleyan methodists, and a free-school, erected and endowed in 1740 by Mrs. Elizabeth Turner. Population returned with the parish."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
The parish covers 965 acres.
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Directories
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Swanwick entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).
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Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Swanwick from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.