Swannington
Swannington is a former mining village in North West Leicestershire, England. A document of 1520 mentions five pits at Swannington. It was a terminus of the early Leicester and Swannington Railway that was built to serve the townships of Swannington and Thringstone and is built on a spot reputedly chosen by William Wordsworth, a frequent guest of Sir George Beaumont of nearby Coleorton Hall.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ian Calderwood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 1,270 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in North West Leicestershire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Swannington, Leicestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hough Windmill and Century Theatre, Coalville.
Hough Windmill
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hough Windmill is a tower windmill in Swannington, Leicestershire, England built in the late 18th century on the boundary with the village of Thringstone.
Century Theatre, Coalville
Theater building
Photo: Andy Dingley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Century Theatre, Coalville is a theater building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Peggs Green and Thringstone.
Peggs Green
Village
Peggs Green is a hamlet within the parish of Coleorton, Leicestershire. For many years it had formed part of the civil parish of Thringstone, until this was dissolved in 1936.
Thringstone
Village
Photo: Trevor Rickard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thringstone is a village in the North West Leicestershire district, in Leicestershire, England. About 3 miles north of Coalville, it lies in the English National Forest.
Coalville
Photo: Mark Anderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Coalville is a town in the district of North West Leicestershire in Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. In 2011, it had a population of 34,575.
Swannington
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: North West Leicestershire, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.74013° or 52° 44′ 25″ northLongitude
-1.3861° or 1° 23′ 10″ westPopulation
1,270Elevation
515 feet (157 metres)Open location code
9C4WPJR7+3HOpenStreetMap ID
node 29529249OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2636434Wikidata ID
Q741317
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Swannington” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Swannington”
- Dutch: “Swannington, Leicestershire”
- French: “Swannington”
- Galician: “Swannington, Leicestershire”
- Irish: “Swannington”
- Ladin: “Swannington (Leicestershire)”
- Ladin: “Swannington”
- Polish: “Swannington”
- Spanish: “Swannington”
- Swedish: “Swannington (parish i Storbritannien, Leicestershire)”
- Swedish: “Swannington, Leicestershire”
- Turkish: “Swannington, Leicestershire”
- Welsh: “Swannington, Swydd Gaerlŷr”
- “Swannington”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Swannington Church of England Primary School and New Swannington Primary School.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Swannington”. Photo: Ian Calderwood, CC BY-SA 2.0.