Swainby

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Village in North Yorkshire, England

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::summary Village in North Yorkshire, England ::

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countryEngland
static_imageOld road sign, Church Lane, Swainby (geograph 6564547).jpg
static_image_width200
static_image_captionChurch Lane
coordinates
official_nameSwainby
civil_parishWhorlton
population1,820
population_ref(2011 census)
unitary_englandNorth Yorkshire
lieutenancy_englandNorth Yorkshire
regionYorkshire and the Humber
constituency_westminsterRichmond and Northallerton
post_townNORTHALLERTON
postcode_districtDL6
postcode_areaDL
dial_code01642
os_grid_referenceNZ477019
london_distance_mi215
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Swainby is a village in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the A172 road, 8 mi north-east from Northallerton and 5 mi south-west from the small market town of Stokesley.

Geography

Swainby is located at the north-western corner of the North York Moors National Park. The characteristics of the village and the surrounding area consist of traditional Yorkshire dry stone walls, hills, sheep, heather and moorland. The name of the village derives from Old Norse, Sveins and by which means the village next to the swans or the land of Svein's people.

The village is close to the ruins of Whorlton Castle; Swainby appears to have been built after its abandonment, possibly due to the Black Death (or some other disease) leaving the inhabitants of the castle low in number in 1428. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Holy_Cross_Church,Swainby-geograph.org.uk-_517158.jpg" caption="Holy Cross Church"] ::

Holy Cross Church (Church of England) was designed by T. H. Wyatt; he was commissioned to do it by the Marquess of Ailesbury. It is in the Early English style and constructed of locally quarried stone. The grade II listed church was consecrated on 4 October 1877.

In the 19th century the housing of miners who worked the nearby hills for ironstone and jet led to an expansion of the village. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/High_Street_and_Scugdale_Beck,Swainby(geograph_6564528).jpg" caption="Scugdale Beck"] ::

Scugdale Beck, a tributary of the River Leven, cuts northwards through the village with two roads either side of the water and houses built on both sides.

Swainby contains two public houses, "The Blacksmiths Arms" and "The Black Horse", and a caravan park with farm house.

Governance

Swainby is in Whorlton civil parish, the village is presently larger than the parish's namesake therefore the electoral ward is under Swainby's name. The ward's population was 1,820 at the 2011 census.

From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Hambleton, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

Transport

Swainby was the site where an old drover's road entered the North York Moors. The road continued south to Sutton Bank where it fed into the prehistoric road that is now the A170. Cattle from Ryedale were brought up to Swainby to be sold in the village.

The village is just south of the A172 road which connects the A19 road with Middlesbrough bypassing Stokesley. The village lies on the Northallerton to Stokesley bus route.

A railway ran through the village between 1857 and 1899. It connected with railway station on the Picton–Battersby line but it was not open to passenger traffic, being used to move ironstone from Whorlton to the smelters on Teesside only.

References

References

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  2. (2016). "North York Moors - Western area". Ordnance Survey.
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  4. (1991). "The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names". Oxford University Press.
  5. (2017). "The Place Names of Yorkshire". Stenlake.
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  7. (2011). "In & around the North York moors through time.". Amberley Pub.
  8. "Genuki: WHORLTON: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1890., Yorkshire (North Riding)".
  9. "Parishes: Whorlton {{!}} British History Online".
  10. "Potto Beck Catchment (trib of Leven)".
  11. "Swainby Ward (as of 2011)".
  12. (26 October 2007). "The history of Sutton Bank - always a popular place to be". Darlington and Stockton Times.
  13. (2004). "Curious tales of old North Yorkshire". Sigma Leisure.
  14. (11 November 2017). "Weekend Walk: Swainby and Live Moor". The Yorkshire Post.
  15. (1974). "A regional history of the railways of Great Britain. Vol. 4, North East England". David & Charles.

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