Swaby
- Not to be confused with Swarby
| Swaby | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 St Nicholas's Church, Swaby | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF387775 |
| Location: | 53°16’35"N, 0°4’48"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 180 (2011) |
| Post town: | Alford |
| Postcode: | LN13 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Lindsey |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Louth and Horncastle |
Swaby is a village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire, situated about eight miles north of Spilsby, and six miles north-west of Alford. Half a mile west of the village is an associated hamlet, Whitepit.
Churches
The parish church, St Nicholas, was built in 1828 of red brick and has a small bell turret. It is a Grade II listed building.[1]
Lucy Lyttelton Cameron, the children's author was buried here in 1858.[2]
An earlier church, dedicated to St Margaret, was removed by Henry Vane of Belleau manor around 1658 and the site of the church is now a cottage garden.[3]
A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built in 1839 and altered in 1866. It became a free Methodist chapel in 1869.[4] Today the site is that of the village hall.
History
Swaby is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as consisting of 21 households, twenty acres of meadow, 600 acres of woodland and two mills.[5]
In 1934 a hoard of 178 silver denarii in a pot were found in the field called 'The Bog' at Swaby. Lincoln Museum acquired 162 of the coins, ranging from Marcus Antoninus and Nero to Hadrian. The remainder are in the British Museum.[6]
Swaby Church of England School was built in 1857 as a National School; it closed in 1976.[7]
About the village
The village hall occupies the site of the old Wesleyan Methodist chapel.
There is a site in the parish designated as a 'Site of Special Scientific Interest', noted under Section 28 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. The reason for the designation:
- "This glacial overflow valley supports floristically diverse lime-rich marsh and unimproved chalk turf. The marsh borders a stream bisecting the valley floor and the interest of the glassland is increased by the terraced nature of the slopes."[8]
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1063601: St Nicholas, Swaby (Grade II listing)
- ↑ Joanne Potier, "Cameron, Lucy Lyttelton (1781–1858)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 26 August 2014.
- ↑ &resourceID=2 National Monuments Record: No. 354267 – Church of St Margaret
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 1380905 – Methodist Chapel, Swaby
- ↑ Swaby in the Domesday Book
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 354234 – Silver Denarii
- ↑ Swaby CE School: Lincs to the Past
- ↑ SSSI listing and designation for Swaby
