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- The parish was in the Sleaford sub-district of the Sleaford Registration District.
- Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census Year | Piece No. |
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1851 | H.O. 107 / 2111 |
1861 | R.G. 9 / 2343 |
1871 | R.G. 10 / 3350 |
1891 | R.G. 12 / 2579 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Mary and All Saints.
- The church was restored in 1886-7.
- The church seats about 300.
- There is a photograph of the church on the Wendy PARKINSON English Church Photo web site.
- Here is a photo of St. Mary's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1813.
- The LFHS has published several marriage and burial indexes for the Lafford Deanery to make your search easier.
- The Lincolnshire FHS has a Loan Library service which has the parish registers on microfiche for Marriages from 1754 to 1812 (no baptisms).
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Sleaford sub-district of the Sleaford Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
Swarby is both a village and parish about 3 miles south of Sleaford. The parish covers just under 1,000 acres, including the hamlet of Crofton, half a mile southeast of the village. Aswarby parish lies to the southeast and Osbournby parish to the south.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, the village is just off the A15 between Bourne and Sleaford, just north of Osbournby.
- See our touring page for more sources.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Swarby to another place.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF047407 (Lat/Lon: 52.953085, -0.443058), Swarby which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- This place was an ancient parish in county Lincoln and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the ancient Aswardhurn Wapentake in the North Kesteven division of the county, parts of Kesteven.
- Kelly's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire lists the parish as being in the ancient Aveland Wapentake in the North Kesteven district.
- On 1 April, 1931, this Civil Parish was abolished and amalgamted into the new Aswarby and Swarby Civil Parish.
- For today's district governance, see the North Kesteven District Council.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Sleaford petty session hearings every Monday.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Sleaford Poor Law Union.
- A Public Elementary School was built here in 1859 to hold up to 70 students.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.