Description
Swaby, a parish with a scattered village in Lincolnshire, 3 1/2 miles SW from Aby station on the East Lincolnshire section of the G.N.R., and 5 1/2 WNW of Alford. It has a post office under Alford; money order and telegraph office, Alford. Acreage, 1556; population, 364. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £290 with residence. Patron, Magdalen College, Oxford. The church, which was erected in 1827, is a small building of brick, consisting of nave with apse, western porch, and bell-turret. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels. Whitepit is an adjacent hamlet.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
