Place:Swannington, Norfolk, England

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Swannington is a village and civil parish in Norfolk, England.

The village is located approximately 9 miles (14 km) north of Norwich between the villages of Taverham, Felthorpe, Brandiston and Cawston. It covers an area of 5.90 km2 (2.28 sq mi).

Swannington had a population of 287 in 120 households at the 2001 UK census, and increasing to a population of 366 in 149 households at the 2011 UK census (when population of the small parish of Alderford was included). For the purposes of local government, it falls within the District of Broadland.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Swannington from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:

"SWANNINGTON, a parish in St. Faith [registration] district, Norfolk; 9 miles NW of Norwich [railway] station. Post town: Norwich. Acres: 1,433. Real property: £2,308. Population: 385. houses: 84. The property is divided among six. The living is a rectory, united with Wood-Dalling, in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £531. Patron: Trinity Hall, Cambridge. The church is good; and there are a Primitive Methodist chapel, and charities £13."

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Swannington. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• A map illustrating the individual parishes of Eynesford or Eynsford Hundred may be useful.
• GENUKI also advises that the following lists for Norfolk are to be found in FamilySearch:

• England, Norfolk, Parish Registers (County Record Office), 1510-1997
• England, Norfolk Archdeacon's Transcripts, 1600-1812
• England, Norfolk Bishop's Transcripts, 1685-1941
• England, Norfolk Marriage Bonds, 1557-1915
• England, Norfolk Non-conformist Records, 1613-1901

• Ancestry.co.uk has the following lists as of 2018 (UK or worldwide Ancestry membership or library access required). With the exception of the index to wills these files are browsible images of the original documents. The files are separated by type and broken down into time periods (i.e., "Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812" is more than one file). The general explanatory notes are worth reading for those unfamiliar with English parish records.

• Index to wills proved in the Consistory Court of Norwich : and now preserved in the District Probate Registry at Norwich
• Norfolk, England, Bishop's Transcripts, 1579-1935
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1915
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1990
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1940

• FindMyPast is another pay site with large collection of parish records. As of October 2018 they had 20 types of Norfolk records available to browse including Land Tax Records and Electoral Registers.