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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Swarkestone like this:
SWARKESTON, a parish in Shardlow district, Derbyshire; on the river Trent and the Gr and Trunk canal, 5 miles S by E of Derby r. station. Post town, Derby. Acres, 943. Real property, £1,770. Pop., 307. houses, 57. A 29-arched bridge, 3,912 feet long, here spans the Trent. The royalists fortified S. house in 1643, but were defeated here by Gell. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £227. Patron, Sir J. H. Crewe, Bart. The church is chiefly Norman, and was enlarged in 1828.
Swarkestone is now part of SOUTH DERBYSHIRE District. Click here for graphs and data of how SOUTH DERBYSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Swarkestone itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Swarkestone, in South Derbyshire and Derbyshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1833
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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