Heritage Open Days is England’s largest festival of history and culture, bringing together over 2,500 organisations, 5,000 events and 40,000 volunteers. Every year for four days in September, places across the country throw open their doors to celebrate their heritage, community and history. It’s your chance to see hidden places and try out new experiences – and it’s all FREE.
Click on the HOD logo above for a detailed properties and events programme with opening times, booking requirements, access details and directions. Please Note: Some venues require pre-booking and may have restricted access.
Before heading out for your Heritage Open Days visit please check events and venues at www.heritageopendays.org.uk for last-minute changes.
- A Walk Through Time at St Helen’s Church and Heritage Centre
- Masonic Hall, Ashby-de-la-Zouch Open Day
- St Peter’s Church, Thornton
- Thringstone House Open Day.
- Guided Tour of Atkins Building and Two Other Grade Listed
- Buildings
- Hinckley & District Museum
- Hinckley Masonic Hall Open Event
- The Great Meeting Unitarian Chapel, Hinckley
- Visit All Saints Church
- 34, Pocklingtons Walk
- Abbey Pumping Station Museum Engine House Tours
- All Saints’ Church: War Memorials Project
- Additional information
- Belgrave Cemetery
- Belgrave Hall and Gardens
- Bishop Street Methodist Church
- Braunstone Heritage
- Castle Gardens and Motte
- Castle Hill Archaeology Open Day
- Central Baptist Church and William Carey Museum
- City Hall
- De Montfort Hall Back Stage Tour
- De Montfort University Heritage Sites
- Freemasons’ Hall, Leicester
- Friars Mill
- Friends of St Peter and St Paul’s Church Syston
- Great Meeting Unitarian Chapel
- Greyfriars: Then and Now
- Historic Abbey Park
- LCB Depot
- Leicester Cathedral / Bell Tower Tours
- Leicester Cathedral / Historic Guided Tours
- Leicester Heritage Exhibition
- Leicester Print Workshop
- Leicester Secular Hall Open Day
- Leicester Synagogue
- Leicester Town Hall
- Leicester’s Historic Victoria Park
- Leicestershire Banking Company, Granby Street
- LGBT – Voices
- Magazine Gateway
- Makers Yard Open Day
- Our Lady and St Nicholas, Wanlip
- Phoenix: Behind the Scenes.
- Raucous Races.
- Regent Sports and Social Club
- Six Goddard Buildings
- St Margaret’s Church
- St Peter’s Church, Highfields
- Stephenson Built Glenfield Railway Tunnel 1832
- Stoneygate Tram Depot
- SuperHome Open Day – Leicester, Great Glen, Main Street
- Syston Masonic Hall
- The City Rooms
- University of Leicester Campus Architecture Tours
- University of Leicester: Treasures of the David Wilson Library
- Welford Road Cemetery Leicester – Guided tours
- Stoneywell Dustbusters
- Wycliffe rooms
- Masonic Hall, Market Harborough
- Tour of St. Peter’s Church, Church Langton