Swine, Yorkshire
| Swine | |
| Yorkshire East Riding | |
|---|---|
 St Mary the Virgin, Swine | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TA136358 |
| Location: | 53°48’24"N, 0°16’35"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 139 (2011) |
| Post town: | Hull |
| Postcode: | HU11 |
| Dialling code: | 01964 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Beverley and Holderness |
Swine is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, five miles north-east of Kingston upon Hull city centre and two miles south of Skirlaugh, to the west of the A165 road.
The wider civil parish, including with the hamlet of Benningholme, had a population of 139 according to the 2011 census.
Parish church
The Priory Church of St Mary the Virgin, the parish church, is a Grade I listed building.[1]
History
The name of the village is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Swine. It appears as Suine in a charter of circa 1150. The name perhaps derives from the Old English swin meaning 'creek'.[2]
In about 1625, Anne Gargill, an early Quaker writer was born here.[3]
Swine was served from 1864 to 1964 by Swine railway station on the Hull and Hornsea Railway.[4]
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Two miles south-west of the village are the earthwork remains of the mediæval Swine Castle that is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.[5]
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References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1083427: Church of St Mary (Grade I listing)
- ↑ Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1960. p. 457 ISBN 0198691033
- ↑ "Gargill, Anne (b. c. 1625, d. in or after 1659), Quaker and writer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/64775. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-64775;jsessionid=6C4A87A5D79E206E7460D83500BD06EE. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
- ↑ Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1008042: Swine Castle Hill (Scheduled ancient monument entry)
- Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 10.
