swaby

{{Infobox UK place

|static_image_name = St.Nicholas, Swaby - geograph.org.uk - 428345.jpg

|static_image_alt =

|static_image_caption = St Nicholas's Church, Swaby

|country = England

|official_name = Swaby

|map_alt =

|coordinates = {{coord|53.276506|0.080018|display=inline,title}}

|population = 180

|population_ref = (2011){{Cite web |url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11129339&c=LN13+0AZ&d=16&e=62&g=6446025&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1439996761807&enc=1 |title=Parish population 2011 |access-date=19 August 2015}}

|shire_district = East Lindsey

|shire_county = Lincolnshire

|region = East Midlands

|constituency_westminster = Louth and Horncastle

|post_town = Alford

|postcode_district = LN13

|postcode_area = LN

|dial_code =

|os_grid_reference = TF387775

|london_distance_mi = 125

|london_direction = S

}}

Swaby is a civil parish and village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, about {{Convert|8|mi|km}} north from Spilsby, and {{Convert|6|mi|km}} north-west from Alford. Whitepit is a hamlet half a mile west of the village.

History

Swaby is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as consisting of 21 households, {{convert|20|acre|km2|1}} of meadow, {{convert|600|acre|km2|0}} of woodland and two mills.{{Cite web |title=Swaby |url=http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF3877/swaby/ |work=Domesday Map |publisher=Anna Powell-Smith/University of Hull |access-date=23 August 2011}}

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.{{Cite PastScape |mnumber=354234 |mname=Silver Denarii |access-date=23 August 2011}}

The parish church is a Grade II listed building dedicated to Saint Nicholas. It was built in 1828 of red brick and has a small bell turret.{{NHLE |desc=St Nicholas, Swaby |num=1063601 |access-date=23 August 2011}} Lucy Lyttelton Cameron, the children's author was buried here in 1858.Joanne Potier, "Cameron, Lucy Lyttelton (1781–1858)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4450, accessed 26 August 2014.] An earlier church, dedicated to St Margaret, was removed by Henry Vane of Belleau manor around 1658. The site of the church is now a cottage garden.{{Cite PastScape |mnumber=354267 |mname=Church of St Margaret |access-date=1 May 2011}}

Swaby CE School was built in 1857 as a National School; it closed in 1976.{{Cite web |title=Swaby CE School |url=http://www.lincstothepast.com/SWABY-CE-SCHOOL/825225.record?pt=S |work=Lincs to the Past |publisher=Lincolnshire Archives |access-date=23 August 2011}}

The village hall{{Cite web |url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2159726 |title=Village Hall|author=Jonathon Thacker|work=2010 |publisher=Jonathon Thacker |access-date=16 April 2011}} occupies the site of the old Wesleyan Methodist chapel. The chapel was built in 1839, altered in 1866, and became a free Methodist chapel in 1869.{{Cite PastScape |mnumber=1380905 |mname=Methodist Chapel, Swaby |access-date=23 August 2011}}

Special scientific interest

There is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Swaby, 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."{{Cite web |url=http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1002225.pdf |title=Swaby SSSI|publisher=Natural England |access-date=16 April 2011}}

Population

{{historical populations

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|title = Population of Swaby Civil Parish{{Cite web |title=Vision of Britain |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TOT_POP&u_id=10459187&c_id=10001043&add=N |access-date=23 August 2011}}

|1801|197

|1811|200

|1821|302

|1831|396

|1841|391

|1851|474

|1881|414

|1891|364

|1901|305

|1911|274

|1921|255

|1931|211