Swallow, Lincolnshire

Description
Swallow, a small village and a parish, in Lincolnshire, 4 miles E by N of Caistor, and 6 1/2 ENE of Moortown station on the Lincoln, Cleethorpes, and Hull branch of the M.S. & L.R. There is a post office under Caistor; money order and telegraph office, Caistor. Acreage, 2650; population, 205. The manor, with all the land, belongs to the Earl of Yarborough. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £314 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Yarborough. The church is a very ancient building of stone, possibly of the Saxon period, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, and a western tower. The chancel was rebuilt in 1868, and the whole edifice restored in 1883, when a new N aisle was added. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.