Swinhope

The Community Library at Caistor has a local history archive that will prove useful in your research.

Alternatively, you can use the Grimsby Library as A resource, also.

• The parish was in the Caistor sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
   
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Helen.
   
• Portions of the church date back to the 13th century.
   
• The church was partially rebuilt in the 1890s.
   
• The church seats between 90 and 100.
   
• There is a photograph of St. Helen's Church on the Wendy Parkinson English Church Photo web site.
   
• Here is a photo of St. Helen's Church, taken by Ron Cole (who retains the copyright):
   

• The parish register dates from 1697.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a protestation index for the Haverstoe Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

• The parish was in the Caistor sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
   
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.

This village and parish lies about 8 miles east of Caistor, 10 miles south of Grimsby and 10 miles north-west of Louth. Thorganby parish lies to the north. The parish covers just over 1,300 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the B1203 south out of Grimsby. About a mile before Binbrook, you will find Swinhope village on your right.
   
• See our touring page for visitor services.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Swinhope to another place.

Marmaduke ALINGTON was born in Sept. 1761 to Henry ALINGTON of Swinhope and his wife Elizabeth GAMBLE. Marmadue became a lawyer in 1708. He died unmarried on 5 September 1749.

Swinhope was designated as a deserted medieval village (DMV). The remains were completely destroyed in 1969 but crop marks remain within the village grounds.

John FIRTH has a photograph of the Click'em Inn on Geograph, taken in July, 2010.

• The old manor house for this parish was destroyed during the civil wars in the reign of Charles I.
   
• Swinhope House, built in 1785-6, was the abode of the Rev. Marmaduke ALINGTON.
   
• Chris has a photograph of Swinhope Hall on Geograph, taken in June, 2013.
   

• The national grid reference is TF 2196.
   
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
   
• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF214964 (Lat/Lon: 53.449982, -0.173292), Swinhope 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.

• In 1900, the occupant of Swinhope House was Rear-Admiral Arthur Hildebrand ALINGTON.  In 1904 he was promoted to Admiral on the Retired List.
   
• In 1909, the Admiral is a resident of Swinhope House.
   
• Admiral Arthur Hildebrand ALINGTON died Lincolnshire in December, 1925, at age 86.
   
• See the War Memorial plaques listed below in St. Helen's Church.

There are two names listed on plaques in Swinhope Church:

1. Walter HACKFATH, died 22nd November 1915, son of Susan HACKFATH of Sixhills, Lincs. (his birth is registered as "HACKFORTH".
    
2. Lieutenant Rupert Hildebrand ALLINGTON, died Sept. 1943. Believed to be the son of Admiral Arthur Hildebrand ALINGTON.

Swinhope was recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as Suinhope.

The name "Swinhope" means 'Swine valley'.

Swinyhope is an alternative name for Swinhope as recorded in 1887.

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincoln county and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Bradley Haverstoe Wapentake in the West Lindsey district and parts of Lindsey.
   
• White's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire places this parish, erroneously, in the East Lindsey division of the county.
   
• The citizens of this parish have elected to forgo a formal Parish Council and instead they hold periodic Parish Meetings of all the citizens to discuss civic and political issues.
   
• Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Grimsby petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	84
1821	94
1831	126
1851	128
1871	117
1881	140
1891	106
1911	84

• The children of this parish attended schools in Thorganby and Binbrook.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.