Swarkestone
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Swarkestone is a village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. The population at the 2011 Census was 187.
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Place details
- Locality
- South Derbyshire
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SK372286
- UK place.official_name
- Swarkestone
- UK place.map_type
- Derbyshire
- UK place.population
- 187
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Swarkestone
- UK place.shire_district
- South Derbyshire
- UK place.shire_county
- Derbyshire
- UK place.region
- East Midlands
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- South Derbyshire
- UK place.post_town
- DERBY
- UK place.postcode_district
- DE73
- UK place.postcode_area
- DE
- UK place.dial_code
- 01332
- UK place.static_image
- SwalkestoneChurchRH.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St James’ Church, Swarkestone
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- South Derbyshire
- Population
- 187
- Image
- Swarkestone Bridge.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01332
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- Commons category
- Swarkestone
- postal code
- DE73
- OS grid reference
- SK372286
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- The village
- Swarkestone Bridge
- Sport
- The Pavilion
- Images
- Notable residents
- See also
- References
- External links
Swarkestone is a village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. The population at the 2011 Census was 187.
Swarkestone has a very old village church, a full cricket pitch, a canal with a Georgian lock keepers cottage and moorings. It was mentioned twice in Domesday as Sorchestun or Suerchestune, when it was worth twenty shillings.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Swarkestone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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