Swannington Heritage Trust

Hough Mill at Swannington

Swannington is located in the north west of Leicestershire and formed part of the region's industrial landscape during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.

The trust has been able to make the most of the remnants of this former industrial landscape.

Swannington Heritage Trust, formed in 1984 as a Company limited by guarantee and a registered Charity, aims to provide, establish and preserve facilities in the village of Swannington and its neighbourhood for the study of industrial, agricultural and general archaeology and other matters of local historical, ecological or environmental interest for the benefit of the public. It has established an archive of village history and conserves a number of important heritage sites-

Swannington incline, part of one of the world's earliest railways.

Swannington Hough windmill which it has refurbished.

Ancient common land which exhibits landscape evidence of medieval coal mining activities.

A woodland nature reserve containing the remains of Califat colliery, a 19th century mine.

Site of Snibston No. 3 colliery, a 19th. Century mine.

For more information and photographs of the trust's sites and the fantastic work it carries out click on Swannington Heritage Trust .

If you wish to bring your school to Swannington for a visit please contact Denis Baker using the contact details here.