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Swinderby

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

Field	Value
country	England
official_name	Swinderby
static_image_name	All saints' church, Swinderby, Lincs. - geograph.org.uk - 68613.jpg
static_image_alt	Church with substantial tower under a sky of duck-egg blue, with a large Yew on the right., a very dark green. The tower is broad, but barely higher than the deeply pitched roof on the nave. It has a clockface on the nearest side.
static_image_caption	All Saints' Church, Swinderby
coordinates
os_grid_reference	SK 8662
population	648
population_ref	(2011)
shire_district	North Kesteven
shire_county	Lincolnshire
region	East Midlands
constituency_westminster	Sleaford and North Hykeham
post_town	LINCOLN
postcode_district	LN6
postcode_area	LN
dial_code	01522
london_distance_mi	120
london_direction	S

Swinderby is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, just north of the A46 road, 8 mi south-west of Lincoln and 6 mi north-east of Newark. Swinderby lies within a rural agricultural community and covers an area of 2200 acre. The population was 648 (including HM Prison Morton Hall) at the 2011 census.

History

The name 'Swinderby' is assumed to have originated either from "sundri + by" (southern farmstead or village), or "svin + djur + by" (farmstead where pigs are kept); in the Domesday Book of 1086 it is referred to as "Sunderby" and "Suindrebi".

The settlement might date back to at least Roman times as Roman pottery and parts of the Fosse Way have been found. Some village buildings date back to the 17th century.

The church of All Saints is predominantly Norman and Early English, however restoration was carried out in 1854, 1879 and 1910.

Wesleyan Chapel, now the ''Light and Life Mission Hall''

In 1872 there was a Wesleyan chapel.

1980 air crash

On Thursday 8 May 1980 a BAC Jet Provost 'XW314' from RAF Cranwell crashed, around 100 yds from the A46.

The pilots landed 1.5 miles away on the edge of Norton Disney woods. Flt Lt Chris Massey was the instructor, of St Martin's Close in Ancaster, a former Vulcan pilot of 44 Sqn at RAF Waddington. Fg Off PC Jones was the pilot being instructed. Fire engines arrived from Lincoln, North Hykeham, Collingham and Newark.

Community

The village has a public house, a church, a village hall, two playing fields and a primary school with nursery.

The school is the All Saints' Church of England Primary School, which was rated as overall Grade 2 (good), in its 2012 Ofsted inspection.

Swinderby is close to the now closed RAF airfield, RAF Swinderby, which holds a bi-monthly antique and collectors fair that has been featured on BBC1's Bargain Hunt.

News and event notices are carried in the village Swinderby Link-up magazine. This publication also includes adverts from local businesses.

References

"Parish council".
"Civil Parish population 2011". Office for National Statistics.
(2003). "Dictionary of British place names". OUP.
"Domesday map web site".
"Domesday online".
[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/Swinderby/ Swinderby] {{webarchive. link. (9 August 2010 ''[[Genuki]]''. Retrieved 7 April 2011)
{{cite PastScape
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"genealogy web site".
link. (17 December 2013 , [[Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales]]. Retrieved 19 March 2013)
''Times'' Friday May 9 1980, page 3
''Lincolnshire Echo'' Tuesday 13 May 1980, page 3
''Sleaford Standard'' Thursday 15 May 1980, page 1
[https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/142018 XW314]
"school web site".
"Ofsted results".
[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pfmlw Bargain Hunt] ''BBC1''. Retrieved 7 April 2011

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