Swannington
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Swannington may refer to more than one place in England:
- Swannington, LeicestershireSwannington, LeicestershireSwannington is a former mining village in Leicestershire, England. It was a terminus of the early Leicester and Swannington Railway that was built to carry away its pits' output...
- a terminus of the historic Leicester and Swannington RailwayLeicester and Swannington RailwayThe Leicester and Swannington Railway was one of England's first railways, being opened on 17 July 1832 to bring coal from collieries in west Leicestershire to Leicester.-Overview:...
- a terminus of the historic Leicester and Swannington Railway
- Swannington, NorfolkSwannington, NorfolkSwannington is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is located approximately north of Norwich between the villages of Taverham, Felthorpe, Brandiston and Cawston....
- location of RAF SwanningtonRAF SwanningtonRAF Swannington was a World War II era airfield located just to the north of the Norfolk village of Swannington, England, also occupying a substantial part of the neighbouring parish of Brandiston. It was opened in April 1944 and sold in 1957, though the RAF left in November 1947. The site is now...
- location of RAF Swannington