Swadlincote, Derbyshire

Description
Swadlincote, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Church Gresley parish, Derbyshire. The township lies on the Burton and Leicester branch of the M.R., 4 miles SE of Burton-upon-Trent, is a seat of petty sessions, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Burton-upon-Trent, a railway station, a town-hall, a church, Baptist, Free and Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels, and a Saturday evening market. Acreage, 642; population, 2945. Under the Local Government Act of 1894, Swadlincote, Gresley, and Newhall were combined to form an urban district council. There are collieries and pottery works. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1849. Population, 3743. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £198 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Church Gresley. The church, built in 1848, is in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, and western turret, and was partly reseated in 1883.