Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SWINESHEAD

SWINESHEAD, a small town, a parish, and a sub-district, in Boston district, Lincoln. The town stands 2 miles S of the Boston and Sleaford railway, and 6 WSW of Boston; was known to the Saxons as Swinesaefed; had a Cistertian abbey, founded in 1134, by R. de Greslei; was the first resting-place of King John, after his narrow escape from destruction in the Wash; stood long in navigable communication with the sea; was, till recently, a market-town; and has a post-office‡ under Spalding, a r. station, and a fair on 2 Oct. The parish comprises 6,100 acres. Real property, £20,289; of which £50 are in gasworks. Pop., 1,903. houses, 438. A Danish camp is about ¼ of a mile NW of the town. Many ancient coins have been found. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £240.* Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is decorated and later English, with a chancel of 1847; and has a tower and lofty spire. The p. curacy of Chapel hill is a separate benefice. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, an endowed school with £172 a year, and charities £365.—The sub-district contains three parishes, parts of two other s, and eight extra-parochial tracts. Pop., 5,583. houses, 1,146.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a small town, a parish, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Swineshead CP/AP       Swineshead SubD       Boston RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place names: SWINESAEFED     |     SWINESHEAD
Place: Swineshead

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