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Swallow, Lincolnshire history

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Etymology

Swallow has been variously written as Sualan (Domesday Book), Suawa, Swalwe and Swalewe (all twelfth century) The Oxford Dictionary of Place Names equates the name with Swale, suggesting that the village is called after a fast-moving river of that name .

Early history

Archaeological finds indicate the presence of early settlements in Swallow . Other traces include cropmark traces of four possible barrows, a pit and a boundary ditch on Cuxwold Road .

Middle Ages

The Domesday Book does not mention Swallow in detail, but in 1086 Lincolnshire was remote from the rest of the kingdom . At this time, Swallow consisted of at least 35 households . Swallow was cut off from the south by the undrained Fens and occupied by hostile Danes (Vikings)

Enclosure

Until 1805 the majority of villagers had strips in two large fields, as well as grazing rights on the wold, the moor and Horse Pasture . Swallow dates from the 19th century enclosure .

Parish registers and census

The parish registers date back to 1671 . It was rare for a family to remain in the village for more than two generations . The majority of labourers moved on after a few years to get a better job or leave farming .

Swallow, Lincolnshire landmarks

Church

The oldest part of the church dates from the period of the Norman conquest or perhaps slightly earlier . The lower portion of the tower is in Saxo-Norman style; the west door has a rounded Romanesque arch, as has the window above it . The much wider arch dividing the tower from the nave has a wider arch .

War memorial

A war memorial commemorates three soldiers who died in the First World War . Lieutenant Cecil Walter Henry Henry Askey, Gunner Walter Day and Stoker Kerdon Wilkin .

Rectories

The Old Rectory was built in 1864 to a design by James Fowler of Louth, the diocesan architect, at a cost of £1,700 . It is clearly identifiable as a mid-Victorian building with Gothic ornamentation .

Chapels

Primitive Methodist chapel was built in 1844 for £98, on a site on the Cuxwold Road donated by Lord Yarborough . In 1855 it was enlarged, but thereafter congregations declined and it closed in 1916 . The building was eventually demolished in 1994 .

Housing since the Second World War

After the Second World War, Swallow became less of an estate village and more of a commuter-cum-retirement village . A number of cottages passed into private hands as the more intensive and mechanised agriculture necessitated by the need to feed the country during the war made them redundant as the homes of farm labourers .

Village pond

The Church and the avenue remain, although the house (Rookery) is gone, and the high bank is largely replaced by a retaining wall . The pond was filled in during the 1960s and the land sold to make a garden for Pond Cottage . The site now has on it a modern house .

School and village hall

Swallow was a two classroom school for about fifty years . In 1941, when the only extant school log begins, it was a one teacher school . November 1948 brought an excellent report from school inspectors citing Swallow as a model for Rural One Teacher Schools .

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