Welcome to the website of the multi award winning Swannington Heritage Trust.  We have a fabulous group of volunteers who work fantastically hard to achieve amazing things

• restoring the dilapidated shell of Hough Mill – mill open Sundays 2-5pm until end of September, please wear a mask
• recovering neglected  railway and coal mining sites and managing them as woodlands and grass heathland
• researching Swannington’s history, cataloguing the archive and publishing historical information
• running events, tours and talks.

HELLO HERITAGE

The Trust is running events as part of the Hello Heritage festival 4th-19th September, sponsored by North West Leicestershire District Council, these include:

• Online Talks – The Operation Of The Califat Coal Mine 1854-1873, plus 500 Years Of Wyggeston Hospital Owning The Manor Of Swannington 1521-2021.
• Califat Coal Mine – Tour of the excavated buildings.
• Swannington Incline – Tour of the historical features.

Details are on the diary page.