Leicestershire
Rural charm and historic market towns
Leicestershire
When thinking about counties to visit in the UK, Leicestershire often goes unnoticed, but this would be to miss out on a picturesque and charming region with a wealth of gorgeous villages, a wonderful industrial heritage and some fantastic historic sites.
Chief among these is the county town and cathedral city of Leicester that sits at the heart of the county on the River Soar and Grand Union Canal and can be traced back to the Roman era. It is a wonderful and vibrant multicultural city, packed with famous architecture, from the old Town Hall to the modern Leicester University Engineering Building and from Leicester Abbey and Leicester Castle to The City Rooms and Belgrave Hall.
Other Roman and Saxon settlements, as well as ancient quarries and medieval abbeys are scattered across Leicestershire. Worth a look are the former colliery at Coalville, now developed into the brilliant Snibston Discovery Park, the historic town of Ashby de la Zouch with its elegant Elizabethan timbered houses and Georgian shops and the castle of Ashby de la Zouch, written about by Sir Walter Scott in Ivanhoe, as well as Donnington Park, Launde Abbey, Kirby Muxloe Castle and Mount St. Bernard Abbey.
For those who want to get out and about there are endless country parks, charming villages and bustling market towns and numerous walking trails, cycling trails and picturesque spots for fishing. At Outwoods there is a beautiful site of special scientific interest, looking out over Loughborough and the Soar Valley.
Also worth a visit are the views of the Soar valley from Bardon Hill and Mountsorrel. Lastly there is the famous National Forest, an impressive new English forest covering a large corner of north west Leicestershire and a wonderful place from which to experience this beautiful county.
© Neddy Seagoon
Postcodes in Leicestershire
Fenny Drayton
Ashby De La Zouch
Ashby De La Zouch Canal
Atterton
Barlestone
Barton in the Beans
Battram
Belcher's Bar
Bilstone
Bufton
Cadeby
Carlton
Congerstone
Dadlington
Far Coton
Higham on the Hill
Market Bosworth
Nailstone
Odstone
Osbaston
Osbaston Hollow
Shackerstone
Shenton
Stoke Golding
Sutton Cheney
Upton
Wellsborough
Wykin
Anker
Little Orton
Little Twycross
Norton Juxta Twycross
Orton on the Hill
Pinwall
Ratcliffe Culey
Sheepy Magna
Sheepy Parva
Sibson
The Cross Hands
Twycross
Blackfordby
Boundary
Appleby Magna
Chilcote
Donisthorpe
Mease
Measham
Moira
Norris Hill
Oakthorpe
Shellbrook
Snarestone
Stretton en le Field
Swepstone
Breedon on the Hill
Tonge
Wilson
Castle Donington
Cavendish Bridge
Diseworth
Hemington
Isley Walton
Kegworth
Lockington
Aston Flamville
Burbage
Hinckley
Hollycroft
Sharnford
Sketchley
Cotes
Dishley
Loughborough
Nanpantan
Shelthorpe
Thorpe Acre
Woodthorpe
Barrow upon Soar
Belton
Burton on the Wolds
Hathern
Hoton
Long Whatton
Long Whatton Brook
Mountsorrel
Normanton on Soar
North End
Prestwold
Quorn (Quorndon)
Quorndon (Quorn)
Rothley Plain
Seagrave
Shepshed
Sileby
Stanford on Soar
Swithland
The Brand
Trent
Walton on the Wolds
West Meadow Brook
Woodhouse
Woodhouse Eaves
Wymeswold
Zouch
Melton Mowbray
Ab Kettleby
Asfordby
Asfordby Hill
Ashby Folville
Bescaby
Brentingby
Brooksby
Broughton Lodges
Burrough on the Hill
Burton Lazars
Chadwell
Coston
Eastwell
Edmondthorpe
Eye
Freeby
Frisby on the Wreake
Garthorpe
Goadby Marwood
Grantham Canal
Great Dalby
Grimston
Gwash
Harby
Hoby
Holwell
Hose
John O'Gaunt
Kirby Bellars
Leesthorpe
Little Dalby
Long Clawson
Nether Broughton
Nether End
Newbold
Old Dalby
Pickwell
Plungar
Potter Hill
Ragdale
Rotherby
Saltby
Saxby
Saxelbye
Scalford
Shoby
Somerby
Sproxton
Stapleford
Stathern
Stonesby
The Valley
Thorpe Arnold
Thorpe Satchville
Twyford
Upper End
Waltham on the Wolds
Wartnaby
Wycomb
Wyfordby
Wymondham
Allexton
Cold Overton
Eyebrook
Knossington
Owston
Rutland Water
Stockerston
Stoke Dry
Blaston
Bringhurst
Caldecott
Church Langton
Cranoe
Drayton
East Langton
Eyebrook Reservoir
Foxton
Glooston
Great Bowden
Great Easton
Gumley
Hallaton
Horninghold
Little Bowden
Lubenham
Market Harborough
Medbourne
Slawston
Stonton Wyville
Thorpe Langton
Welham
Welland
Ashby Magna
Ashby Parva
Avon
Bitteswell
Bruntingthorpe
Catthorpe
Claybrooke Magna
Claybrooke Parva
Cotesbach
Dunton Bassett
Frolesworth
Gilmorton
Husbands Bosworth
Kimcote
Knaptoft
Laughton
Leire
Lutterworth
Misterton
Mowsley
North Kilworth
Peatling Parva
Shawell
Shearsby
South Kilworth
Swift
Swinford
Theddingworth
Ullesthorpe
Upper Bruntingthorpe
Walcote
Walton
Kilby
Kilby Bridge
South Wigston
Wigston
Wigston Magna
Braunstone
Enderby
Narborough
Red Hill
Whetstone
Eyres Monsell
Glen Parva
Great Stretton
Little Stretton
Oadby
Stoughton
Leicester Forest East
Birstall
Thurmaston
Wanlip
Thurnby
Anstey
Bondman Hays
Groby
Newtown Linford
Annwell Place
Ashby de la Zouch
Lount
Money Hill
Packington
Scotland
Willesley
Worthington
Agar Nook
Bagworth
Bardon
Church Town
Coalville
Coleorton
Coleorton Moor
Copt Oak
Donington le Heath
Ellistown
Farm Town
Field Head
Gelsmoor
Greenhill
Griffydam
Heather
Hugglescote
Ibstock
Markfield
New Swannington
Newton Burgoland
Normanton le Heath
Oaks in Charnwood
Osgathorpe
Outwoods
Peggs Green
Ravenstone
Ringing Hill
Snibston
Stanton under Bardon
Swannington
Thornton
Thringstone
West End
Whitwick
Barkby
Barkby Thorpe
Barsby
Beeby
Billesdon
Bushby
Cold Newton
Cossington
Cropston
East Goscote
East Norton
Eye Brook
Frisby
Gaddesby
Gaulby
Goadby
Halstead
Houghton on the Hill
Hungarton
Illston on the Hill
Keyham
King's Norton
Loddington
Lowesby
Marefield
Noseley
Queniborough
Ratcliffe on the Wreake
Rearsby
Rolleston
Rothley
Six Hills
Skeffington
Soar
South Croxton
Syston
Thrussington
Thurcaston
Tilton on the Hill
Tugby
Wreake
Arnesby
Blaby
Bulwick
Burton Overy
Care Village
Carlton Curlieu
Countesthorpe
Fleckney
Foston
Grand Union Canal
Great Glen
Kibworth Beauchamp
Kibworth Harcourt
Newton Harcourt
Peatling Magna
Saddington
Scotland
Sence
Shangton
Smeeton Westerby
The Woodlands
Tur Langton
Willoughby Waterleys
Wistow
Barwell
Botcheston
Brascote
Broughton Astley
Cosby
Croft
Desford
Earl Shilton
Elmsthorpe
Huncote
Hunt's Lane
Kirby Fields
Kirby Muxloe
Kirkby Mallory
Littlethorpe
Merry Lees
Newbold Heath
Newbold Verdon
Newtown Unthank
Normanton Turville
Peckleton
Potters Marston
Primethorpe
Ratby
Sapcote
Stapleton
Stoney Stanton
Sutton in the Elms
Thurlaston
Sawley
Ratcliffe on Soar
Fairham Brook
Barkestone le Vale
Bottesford
Devon
Easthorpe
Muston
Normanton
Redmile
Belvoir
Branston
Croxton Kerrial
Eaton
Harston
Knipton
Woolsthorpe By Belvoir
Buckminster
Sewstern
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