Swardeston is a village four miles (6 km) south of
Norwich in
Norfolk, England, on high ground above the
Tas valley. It covers an area of and had a population of 619 at the
2011 census.
History
One of the earliest mentions of this place is in the
Domesday Book of 1086, where it is mentioned amongst the lands given to
Roger Bigod by
King William I. The manor given to Roger included of land and of meadow.
Its church, dedicated to
St Mary
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the Virgin, has a 15th-century tower, but two arched windows indicate that its origins are
Saxon
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peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, la, Saxonia) near the Nor ...
and
Norman.
Edith Cavell, the English nurse shot dead by a German firing squad during the
First World War, was born in Swardeston in 1865.
Sport
Swardeston Cricket Club
Swardeston hosts a successful
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
team, who have won
ECB National Club Twenty20
The ECB National Club Twenty20 is a knockout Twenty20 club cricket competition in England. It was established in 2008 and the inaugural winners were South Northumberland.http://www.ecb.co.uk/news/non-first-class/cockspur-club-twenty20/cockspur-cl ...
three times (in 2010, 2016 and 2019)
and the
ECB National Club Cricket Championship in 2019, when they defeated
Nantwich at
Lord's
Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known as Lord's, is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London. Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and is the home of Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and ...
by 53 runs.
They have also won the
East Anglian Premier League seven times, including five consecutive tiles from 2012 to 2016.
Football
In football,
Norwich CEYMS of the
Anglian Combination
The Anglian Combination (known as the Hadley & Ottaway Anglian Combination under the terms of a sponsorship deal) is an English football league that operates in the East Anglia area. The league specifically covers Norfolk and northern Suffolk w ...
also play in the village.
Notes
External links
Swardeston C
https://swardestonhistory.webnode.co.uk/ Old Swardeston history site
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Swardeston,
Villages in Norfolk
Civil parishes in Norfolk
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