Sway, Hampshire
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 Sway: Forest Heath Hotel and the post office |
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| Sway shown within Hampshire | |
| Population | 3,448 (2001 and 2011 Census') |
| OS grid reference | SZ2798 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LYMINGTON |
| Postcode district | SO41 |
| Dialling code | 01590 |
| Police | Hampshire |
| Fire | Hampshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
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Sway is a village in Hampshire in the New Forest national park in England. The civil parish was formed in 1879, when lands were taken from the extensive parish of Boldre. The village has shops and pubs, and a railway station on the main line from Weymouth and Bournemouth to Southampton and London Waterloo. Sway is on the southern edge of the woodland and heathland of the New Forest. Much of the children's novel The Children of the New Forest is set in the countryside surrounding Sway.
Sway has shops, two pubs, and a number of restaurants and hotels. There is also a Church of England primary school. The village is home to football clubs, a tennis club, the mighty Sway Cricket Club, a fencing club, an archery club, and a gardening club.Sway railway station is on the main line from Weymouth and Bournemouth to Southampton and London Waterloo with train services operated by South West Trains. From Brockenhurst, one can catch the "Lymington Flyer" services connect with the ferry to Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight. Sway is twinned with the village of Bretteville, France.
The northern part of the parish contains areas of woodland, heathland, acid grassland, scrub and valley bog, supporting a richness and diversity of wildlife.
Sway is a settlement of Anglo-Saxon origin, and its name, from the Old English name "Svieia", means "noisy stream" which is a probable reference to the Avon Water.Stone Age implements have been found here and Bronze Age barrows containing funerary urns.
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