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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
SWINTON [village] Swinton
Swinton
Swinton
Revd [Reverend] James Logan, Swinton
County Map (Blackwoods)
Mr. J. N. Lightbody, Swinton
023.05 A long and regular built village, the houses are mostly one story high and thatched, and occupied by farm labourers or carters with a few small shops such as grocers & bakers, there are two fairs held in the village annually, one in June and the other in October, but of late years
they have so fallen away that very little notice is now taken of them. There are a number of feuars in the village but Mrs.
Swinton of Swinton House is the principal proprietress,

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Sheet 23-5 -- Parish of Swinton -- Collected by C E. Hewitt Sapr RE [Sapper Royal Engineers]

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