Swannington Leicestershire Family History Guide

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Swannington is a chapelry of Whitwick Ancient Parish in Leicestershire.

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Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1601
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604

Nonconformists include: General Baptist, Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SWANNINGTON, a village, a township, and a chapelry, in Whitwick parish, Leicester. The village stands on the Leicester and Swannington railway, in a valley encompassed by gently rising hills, and well-watered by several fine springs, 3¾ miles E by S of Ashby-de-Ia-Zouch; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Ashby-de-la-Zouch.

The township comprises 1,450 acres. Real property, £8,360; of which £4,132 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 822; in 1861, 1,276. Houses, 285. The manor belongs to Wyggestone’s Hospital. Coal abounds, and is largely worked.

The chapelry is larger than the township. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £140. Patron,, the Vicar of Whitwick. The church is very plain. There are national schools.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Leicestershire, Swannington – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Swannington, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

Administration

  • County: Leicestershire
  • Civil Registration District: Ashby de la Zouch
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Leicester
  • Diocese: Peterborough
  • Rural Deanery: Akeley
  • Poor Law Union: Ashby de la Zouch
  • Hundred: West Goscote
  • Province: Canterbury