SWINE, a township and a parish in Skirlaugh district, E. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the Hull and Hornsea railway, 7½ miles NNE of Hull; and has a r. station. Acres, 2,190. Real property, £3,482. Pop., 182. houses, 39. The parish includes ten other townships, and contains Skirlaugh post-office under Hull-Pop., 1,823. houses, 344. The property is much sub-divided. A Cistertian nunnery was founded here, in the time of Stephen, by R. de Verli; and was given, at the dissolution, to the Greshams. The living is a vicarage . in the diocese of York. Value, £102.* Patron, W. Wilberforce, Esq. The church is old but good. The p. curacies of Skirlaugh and Bilton are separate benefices. There are an endowed school with £11 a year, and charities £57.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))