Swarkestone
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Swarkestone is a village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. The population at the 2011 Census was 187.[1]
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Swarkestone | |
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Location within Derbyshire | |
Population | 187 (2011) |
OS grid reference | SK372286 |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | DERBY |
Postcode district | DE73 |
Dialling code | 01332 |
Police | Derbyshire |
Fire | Derbyshire |
Ambulance | East Midlands |
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Swarkestone has a very old village church, a full cricket pitch, a plant nursery/ garden centre and restaurant called "Swarkestone Nursery", the Crewe and Harpur pub, a canal with a Georgian lock keepers cottage and moorings. It was mentioned twice in Domesday as Sorchestun or Suerchestune, when it was worth twenty shillings.[2]