Swardeston is a village four miles (6 km) south of Norwich in Norfolk, England, on high ground above the Tas valley.

Its church, dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, has a 15th-century tower, but two arched windows indicate that its origins are Saxon and Norman.

Edith Cavell, the English nurse shot dead by a German firing squad during the First World War, was born in Swardeston in 1865.

Swardeston hosts a successful cricket team, who have won ECB National Club Twenty20 three times (in 2010, 2016 and 2019)[5] and the ECB National Club Cricket Championship in 2019, when they defeated Nantwich at Lord's by 53 runs.

[6] They have also won the East Anglian Premier League eight times, including five consecutive tiles from 2012 to 2016.