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Swillington is a village and civil parish near Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough. It is situated east from Leeds city centre, east from the River Aire, and is surrounded by streams including Fleakingley Beck. In 2001, Swillington had a population of about 3,530.〔(Office for National Statistics: ''Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts: Leeds'' ) Retrieved 9 September 2009〕 Swillington was a coal mining village until the closure of Primrose Hill pit. Where that once stood is now a housing estate with streets named after the colliery. The village is close to St Aidan's nature reserve, and the Leeds Country Way which passes through the village. The population of Swillington decreased to 3,088 in 2011.〔Swillington is made up of 11 output areas in the Garforth and Swillington ward.〕〔http://ukcensusdata.com/garforth-and-swillington-e05001423#sthash.CHDzjlJZ.dpbs〕 ==Etymology== The name Swillington is first attested in the ''Domesday Survey'' in the forms "Suillictun", "Suilligtune" and "Suillintun". Its etymology is uncertain, but probably derives from Old English ''swīn'' "pig" + either ''lēah'' "open ground" or ''hyll'' "hill" + ''ing'', a suffix which in this case marks the word as a place-name + ''tūn'' "estate, farm".〔Victor Watts (ed.), ''The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), s.v. "SWILLINGTON"〕 The ''Dictionary of British Place Names'' gives a derivation from "farmstead near the pig hill (or clearing)."〔Mills, Anthony David (2003); ''A Dictionary of British Place Names'', Oxford University Press, revised edition (2011), p.446. ISBN 019960908X〕 The name was recorded as "Svilentone" in 1147. Historically Swillington's full title was Swillington-in-Elmet, which refers to the association of the village with the early medieval polity of Elmet. However, as with many other places the "-in-Elmet" has been lost in modern times with only a few exceptions such as Barwick-in-Elmet and Sherburn-in-Elmet surviving. Nowadays Elmet only exists as a political constituency. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Swillington」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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