Welcome to the multi award winning Swannington Heritage Trust

Swannington, a Leicestershire village with a wonderful heritage of coal mining and horse drawn tramways. Their presence, the reason for the building of one of the world’s first steam railways.

Swannington Heritage Trust, run entirely by volunteers, maintain 14 acres of industrial heritage sites as woodland and grass heathland, along with its buildings, for the benefit of the community.

Our fabulous volunteers have, and continue to work fantastically hard to achieve amazing things to come to visit or read about:

• A two-hundred-year-old windmill, Hough Mill was a derelict tower but has now been substantially restored.
• Swannington Incline, part of Robert Stephenson’s Leicester & Swannington railway, is transformed from an inaccessible landfill site, into a wooded permissive path with three rebuilt bridges and the footprint of its Engine House
• The overgrown Gorse Field, once a site of early mining activity, now transformed into an environmental delight and designated Local Wildlife Site.
• Califat Spinney where a Victorian coal mine once operated. Consolidated archaeological remains of mining buildings now blend into a diverse woodland within which one of only seven Newcomen boilers in the world can be seen.
• The Snibston No3 coal mine site, part of Stephenson’s local mining estate, is now a nature area.
• The Swannington Archive is our museum accredited collection of artifacts, documents and photographs.

Details of events and volunteer sessions are on the diary page.