Swinton is a village and

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in the

Ryedale Ryedale is a non-metropolitan district in North Yorkshire, England. It is in the Vale of Pickering, a low-lying flat area of land drained by the River Derwent. The Vale's landscape is rural with scattered villages and towns. It has been inh ...

district of

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, England. It is about west of Malton on the

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, and is on the edge of the Howardian Hills AONB to the immediate north. The village appears in the ''

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'' as 'Swintune' which is derived from 'pig farm'. The parish had 467 residents at the 2001 census, which had risen to 608 by the time of the 2011 census. By 2015,

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had estimated the population to have been 630.

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Village website
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