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Swarby

Village and former civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England

Field	Value
static_image_name	St.Mary and All Saints' church, Swarby, Lincs. - geograph.org.uk - 90677.jpg
static_image_caption	St Mary and All Saints' Church, Swarby
country	England
official_name	Swarby
coordinates
civil_parish	Aswarby and Swarby
shire_district	North Kesteven
shire_county	Lincolnshire
region	East Midlands
constituency_westminster	Sleaford and North Hykeham
post_town	Sleaford
postcode_district	NG34
postcode_area	NG
os_grid_reference	TF047406
london_distance_mi	100
london_direction	S

Swarby is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Aswarby and Swarby, in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, approximately 3 mi south-southwest of Sleaford, 900 yd west of the A15 road and 1 mi to the northwest of Aswarby. In 1921 the parish had a population of 141. On 1 April 1931 the parish was abolished to form "Aswarby and Swarby".

The village name is Scandinavian in origin, and comes from the Old Norse for a farmstead or village of a person named 'Svarri'.

The parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary and All Saints and is a Grade II* listed building dating from the 13th century. It was restored in 1886 and the south aisle dates from the same time. The west tower is 15th-century. On the north wall of the chancel is a rectangular ashlar wall plaque to Anthony Williams who died in 1681.

Swarby CE School was built in 1859, and closed in 1971.

A tornado swept through the village on 28 June 2012. It uprooted many trees, lifted a trampoline hundreds of feet and caused a garage roof to collapse while removing tiles from houses.

Notable people

The entertainer Joe Brown was born at Swarby on 13 May 1941. Despite being referred to as a Cockney, Brown is a Lincolnshire Yellowbelly.

References

"Population statistics Swarby AP/CP through time". [[A Vision of Britain through Time]].
"Relationships and changes Swarby AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time.
[http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Lincolnshire/Swarby "Swarby"], ''Key to English Place-names'', [[University of Nottingham]]. Retrieved 7 February 2015
Mills, Anthony David. (2011). "A Dictionary of British Place Names". [[Oxford University Press]].
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"Swarby CE School". Lincolnshire Archives.
[http://www.sleafordstandard.co.uk/news/local/breaking-news-tornado-hits-sleaford-area-video-1-4001325 "Breaking News: tornado hits Sleaford area"], ''Sleaford Standard'', 29 June 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2013
Eder, Bruce; [http://www.allmusic.com/artist/joe-brown-mn0000120615/biography "Joe Brown"], [[AllMusic]]. Retrieved 7 February 2015

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