page_title: Swithland
section_title: Swithland Estate
hierarchical_section_title: Swithland / History / Swithland Estate
caption_attribution_description: English: The old (c.1500) lantern cross from Mountsorrel that now stands in Swithland, having been moved there in the 18th century by the owner of Swithland Hall.
context_page_description: Swithland is a linear village in the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England. The population of the civil parish was put at 230 in 2004 and counted at 217 in the 2011 census. It is in the old Charnwood Forest, between Cropston, Woodhouse and Woodhouse Eaves. It has a village hall, a parish church and a public house, the Griffin Inn. The village is known for the slate that was quarried in the area.
context_section_description: The Swithland Hall estate was held by the family of Danvers until 1796 but after the death of Sir John Danvers (the last male of his line) it passed to his son-in-law, Augustus Richard Butler, second son of the second Earl of Lanesborough, who adopted the surname of Danvers-Butler and afterwards inherited the title of Earl of Lanesborough.
  The original Swithland Hall, which stood at the eastern end of the village as it is today, on the site now occupied by Hall Farm, was destroyed by fire in 1822, although part of the hall's boundary wall, including two towers are still in existence, both of which are in Main Street. The current hall, a Grade II listed building, was partially completed in 1834 and finished in 1852, on a different site to the south-east, in what was then known as Swithland Park, by John George Danvers Butler, sixth Earl of Lanesborough. The estate includes the lantern cross that originally stood in Mountsorrel that dates from about 1500 and was moved to its current location in Swithland Park in 1793 by Sir John Danvers, who replaced it with the Buttermarket Cross that still stands there.
caption: The c.1500 Mountsorrel cross that was moved to Swithland in the 18th century
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