Place:Swepstone, Leicestershire, England

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source: Family History Library Catalog

source: Family History Library Catalog

Swepstone is a village in Ashby-de-la-Zouch Rural District from 1894 until 1974 and since 1974 in the North West Leicestershire District of Leicestershire, England.

Wikipedia notes that Newton Burgoland is part of Swepstone. It has been redirected here.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Swepstone.

A History of Britain through Time provides the following description of Swepstone from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"SWEPSTONE, a parish, with a village and two hamlets, in Ashby-de-la-Zouch [registration] district, Leicester; 4 miles S by E of Ashby-de-la-Zouch [railway] station. It has a post-office under Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Acres: 2,287. Real property: £4,475. Population: 566. Houses: 137. The manor belongs to J. Gurdon, Esq. The living is a rectory, united with Snareston, in the diocese of Peterborough. Value: £1,050. Patron: the Rev. W. Hodgson. The church is ancient, and has a tower of 1842. There are Independent, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels, a national school, and charities £95."

Research Tips

• The Ashby-de-la-Zouch Rural District page includes a map illustrating the civil parishes of the district. Swepstone is #17 on the map.
• To inspect the smaller settlements in relation to their civil parishes, see the Ordnance Survey Map of 1944 provided by A History of Britain through Time.