Traditional county: Leicestershire · District / Borough: North West Leicestershire · Region: East Midlands
Explore Swannington, Leicestershire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Swannington map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
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| Place | Swannington |
| Traditional County | Leicestershire |
| District / Borough | North West Leicestershire |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.742532 |
| Longitude | -1.386483 |
| Place Type | Village |
Swannington reveals its character through the rugged remnants of its coal-mining past, where the earth still bears the quiet weight of industrial toil beneath a verdant veneer. It lies 1.9 miles north-west of Coalville (from Coalville: bearing 324°T, OS grid SK 415 162), and is situated south-west of Thringstone village. The landscape rises into gentle heights, most notably near Red Hill, where the horizon broadens to catch the fleeting, pale light of the East Midlands sky. High above the tracks and lanes, the solitary silhouette of Hough Tower Mill stands as a sentinel, its masonry recording the changing winds that have swept across these fields for generations. Broad Hill offers a vantage point from which one might observe how the terrain dips and swells, reflecting a geology shaped by centuries of extraction and subsequent reclamation. Swannington maintains a quiet composure, its historical narrative forged in the deep seams of the ground rather than the grandiosity of monumental architecture. The air here holds a clarity that softens the transition between the working history of the shafts and the present stillness of the woods. One finds that the endurance of Swannington resides in this dialogue between the scarred earth and the slow, persistent return of the meadow.
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Explore Swannington, Leicestershire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 52.742532, -1.386483. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | August 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |