Cambridgeshire
South Cambridgeshire District
Swavesey

Swavesey

Swavesey is a village lying on the Prime Meridian of the world in , England, with a population of 2,463. The village is situated 9 miles to the north west of and 3 miles south east of .
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Wikipedia
  • Type: Village with 2,600 residents
  • Description: village in Cambridgeshire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Swavesey, Cambridgeshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include White Horse Inn and Swavesey Priory.

Pub
Photo: Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a pub.

Archaeological site
Photo: Hugh Venables, CC BY-SA 2.0.
was a medieval monastic house in the village of Swavesey, , . A church existed in Swavesey at the time of the Norman Conquest, when Alan, Count of Richmond, granted it to the Benedictine Abbey of St Sergius and St Bacchus in , .

Nature reserve
Photo: Hugh Venables, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a 16.3 hectare Local Nature Reserve north of Swavesey in , England. It is owned by , and was formerly managed by the Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely Naturalists Trust, but as of December 2016 it is not listed on the Trust's web site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Over and Fen Drayton.

Village
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is a large village near the River Great Ouse in the county of , just east of the prime meridian. The parish covers an area of approximately 2,535 acres.

Village
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is a small village between and in , England, and between the villages of and Swavesey. The village has a primary school, village hall, nursery, tennis courts and football fields, where Drayton Lions Football Club play their home matches, and a pub.

Village
is a village in , England, approximately 6 miles east of , in the civil parish of Holywell-cum-Needingworth. It is situated within , a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire, and is a historic county of England. is situated 2 miles northwest of Swavesey.

Swavesey

Latitude
52.30075° or 52° 18′ 3″ north
Longitude
-0.00523° or 0° 0′ 19″ west
Population
2,600
Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB SW4
Open location code
9C4X8X2V+7W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25297041
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2636409
Wiki­data ID
Q2522814
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Swavesey” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سووسي”
  • Bengali: “সোয়াভেসি”
  • Cebuano: “Swavesey”
  • Chinese: “Swavesey”
  • Chinese: “斯瓦文希”
  • Dutch: “Swavesey”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سووسى”
  • French: “Swavesey”
  • German: “Swavesey”
  • Gujarati: “સ્વાવેસી”
  • Irish: “Swavesey”
  • Italian: “Swavesey”
  • Japanese: “スウェーブシー”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ವಾವಸೆ”
  • Korean: “스웨이브시”
  • Ladin: “Swavesey”
  • Lithuanian: “Svovesis”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Swavesey”
  • Persian: “سویوزی”
  • Polish: “Swavesey”
  • Portuguese: “Swavesey”
  • Russian: “Свейвси”
  • Spanish: “Swavesey”
  • Swedish: “Swavesey”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்வாவெசெய்”
  • Telugu: “స్వావెస్సి”
  • Urdu: “سواویسیی”
  • “Swavesey”

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