Swinton, Harrogate

Swinton
Swinton
Swinton shown within North Yorkshire
Population 200 (2011)[1]
OS grid reference SE213795
Civil parish
  • Swinton with Warthermarske
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town RIPON
Postcode district HG4
Police North Yorkshire
Fire North Yorkshire
Ambulance Yorkshire
EU Parliament Yorkshire and the Humber

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]

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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