Swaton, Lincolnshire

Description
Swaton, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, near the ancient Roman Carr-dyke, 9 miles SE from Sleaford, 2 1/2 from Helpringham station on the Great Eastern and Great Northern Joint line from Spalding to Doncaster, and 3 NE from Billingborough station on the Bourn and Sleaford branch of the G.N.R. It has a post office under Falkingham; money order and telegraph office, Billingborough. Acreage, 3274; population of the civil parish, 271; of the ecclesiastical, with Spanby, 353. The manor belongs to the Lee-Warner family. The living is a vicarage, united with Spanby, in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £300 with residence. The church is an ancient and beautiful cruciform building of stone in the Early Geometric, Late Decorated, and Perpendicular styles.