Colliery Tours
Follow in the footsteps and experience the day in the life of a Leicestershire coal miner with a guided tour of the historic Snibston Colliery. The tour is led by experienced former miners who will take you through the colliery.
Bus Event
Following the successful 100 Years of Midland Red in Coalville Bus Festival in 2025, this year Leicester Transport Heritage Trust will showcase vintage cars and preserved buses as well as providing free classic bus trips.
Hello Heritage Event. For further details of other events and activities go to https://www.nwleics.gov.uk/
Halloween Special
Join us this Friday 30th October for a special lantern lit mine tour and experience it’s spooky atmosphere.
The mines being dark, cold with the creaking of old timbers provided the perfect environment for ghostly apparitions.
Plus ghostly goings on in the lamp room, hear some of those Ghost stories from our guides.
There will also be a few shocks on the way! Tickets from Eventbrite . Limited numbers available.
40th Anniversary Events
A series of events commemorating the 40th anniversary of the closure of Snibston, Whitwick and South Leicester Collieries.
Sat 22nd August – Miners’ Snap
Sun 6th September – Snibston Historic Bus Festival
Sun 20th September – Snibston Colliery Open Day
Fri 30th October – Ghostly Goings on in the Pit – Halloween Colliery Tours
Sat 31st October – Haunting Tales from the Pit – Halloween Colliery Tours
Sun 13th December – A Miners’ Christmas
How to find us
We are situated on Ashby Road, Coalville, Leicestershire LE67 3LN. Our what 3 words is afford.army.look.
Coalville is 15mins from junction 22 of the M1 to the south and 15mins from the A42 Ashby turn-off to the north.
Parking
Parking on site is to the right when entering Snibston Colliery Park. The car park is behind the Café. It has an ANPR system, so please pay on exit. Current fees will be displayed at the pay station.
There are disabled bays as well as car charging bays.
Accessibility
Most of the tour is on a flat surface with ramps going into and out of the main building. However due to its size the ‘into the dark’ experience is unsuitable for wheelchair access. Part of the tour is by some 14 then 5 steps. Assistance dogs are welcome but in the powder magazine there is a explosion demo which is unsuitable for dogs.