Description
Swinderby, a parish, with a pleasant village, in Lincolnshire, on the Nottingham and Lincoln branch of the M.R., 6 1/2 miles NE by N of Newark, and 9 SW from Lincoln. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Lincoln; money order and telegraph office, Collingham. Acreage, 2192; population, 470. The manor belongs to the Curtis family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £206 with residence. The church is an ancient edifice of stone, chiefly Norman, consisting of apsidal chancel with organ chamber, nave, N aisle, S porch, and an embattled western tower. It has a brass of 1613. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
