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Swinton is a small village in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated to the immediate south-west of Masham and separated from it by the River Burn.[2] The village is at the eastern end of Swinton Park and shares a civil parish with Warthermarske.[3]

Swinton
Swinton
Location within North Yorkshire
Population200 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceSE213795
Civil parish
  • Swinton with Warthermarske
District
  • Harrogate
Shire county
Region
  • Yorkshire and the Humber
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townRIPON
Postcode districtHG4
PoliceNorth Yorkshire
FireNorth Yorkshire
AmbulanceYorkshire
List of places
UK
England
Yorkshire
54.213°N 1.672°W / 54.213; -1.672

The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to Count Alan[4] and the names derives from the Old English swīn-tūn which means Pig-Farm.[5]


References


  1. "Civil ward population 2011". Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  2. "99" (Map). Northallerton & Ripon. 1;50,000. Landranger. Ordnance Survey. 2016. ISBN 9780319261972.
  3. "Boundary Map of Swinton With Warthermarske Tn/CP". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  4. Powell-Smith, Anna. "Swinton | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  5. Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 457. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.


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