Leicestershire
Blaby
Glenfields

Glenfield

Glenfield is a large village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Glenfields, in the Blaby district of , England. At the 2011 Census, Glenfields had a population of 9,643.
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  • Type: Village with 10,000 residents
  • Description: village in Leicestershire, England
  • Also known as: “Glenfield, Leicestershire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of St Peter and Glenfield Hospital.

Church
Photo: Kev747, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Hospital
Photo: Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, formally known as Glenfield General Hospital, is situated near Glenfield, on the outskirts of . It is one of England's main hospitals for coronary care and respiratory diseases.

Nature reserve
Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kirby Frith is a 2.1-hectare Local Nature Reserve on the western outskirts of . It is owned and managed by Leicester City Council. This site is described by Natural England as the richest wildflower grassland in the county, with species such as devil's-bit scabious, betony and yellow rattle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Newfoundpool and Thorpe Astley.

Suburb
is an area of lying south of the former Leicester and Swannington Railway. The land was purchased by market gardener Isaac Harrison in around 1830. is situated 2 miles east of Glenfield.

Suburb
Photo: Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a suburban settlement on the southwestern edge of the city of , . It is part of the civil parish of , although a small part of the development, around Goodheart Way, extends into civil parish. is situated 2½ miles south of Glenfield.

Village
Photo: Leeclarke1981, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Braunstone is a town and civil parish in the district of Blaby in Leicestershire, England. At the 2011 census the population of the town was 16,850. Braunstone is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, giving a population of "two sokemen and four villeins". is situated 2½ miles south of Glenfield.

Glenfield

Latitude
52.64992° or 52° 38′ 60″ north
Longitude
-1.20524° or 1° 12′ 19″ west
Population
10,000
Elevation
322 feet (98 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB GLF
Open location code
9C4WJQXV+XW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27148946
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2648484
Wiki­data ID
Q1983221
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Glenfield” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Glenfield”
  • Aragonese: “Glenfield”
  • Arpitan: “Glenfield”
  • Asturian: “Glenfield”
  • Bambara: “Glenfield”
  • Basque: “Glenfield”
  • Bavarian: “Glenfield”
  • Bengali: “গ্লেনফিল্ড”
  • Breton: “Glenfield”
  • Cajun French: “Glenfield”
  • Catalan: “Glenfield”
  • Cebuano: “Glenfield (kapital sa kondado)”
  • Cebuano: “Glenfield”
  • Chinese: “格伦菲尔德”
  • Chinese: “格倫菲爾德”
  • Corsican: “Glenfield”
  • Croatian: “Glenfield”
  • Czech: “Glenfield”
  • Danish: “Glenfield”
  • Dutch: “Glenfield”
  • Esperanto: “Glenfield”
  • Estonian: “Glenfield”
  • Finnish: “Glenfield”
  • French: “Glenfield”
  • Friulian: “Glenfield”
  • Galician: “Glenfield”
  • German: “Glenfield, Leicestershire”
  • German: “Glenfield”
  • Gujarati: “ગ્લેનફિલ્ડ”
  • Hebrew: “גלנפילד”
  • Hungarian: “Glenfield”
  • Ido: “Glenfield”
  • Indonesian: “Glenfield”
  • Interlingua: “Glenfield”
  • Interlingue: “Glenfield”
  • Irish: “Glenfield”
  • Italian: “Glenfield”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Glenfield”
  • Japanese: “グレンフィールド”
  • Kabyle: “Glenfield”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ಲೆನ್ಫೀಲ್ಡ್”
  • Kongo: “Glenfield”
  • Korean: “글렌필드”
  • Latvian: “Glenfield”
  • Latvian: “Glenfīlda”
  • Ligurian: “Glenfield”
  • Limburgan: “Glenfield”
  • Lithuanian: “Glenfield”
  • Lithuanian: “Glenfildas”
  • Low German: “Glenfield”
  • Luxembourgish: “Glenfield”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Glenfield”
  • Malagasy: “Glenfield”
  • Malay: “Glenfield”
  • Minangkabau: “Glenfield”
  • Narom: “Glenfield”
  • Neapolitan: “Glenfield”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Glenfield”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Glenfield i England”
  • Norwegian: “Glenfield”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Glenfield”
  • Papiamento: “Glenfield”
  • Persian: “گلنفیلد، لسترشر”
  • Picard: “Glenfield”
  • Piemontese: “Glenfield”
  • Polish: “Glenfield”
  • Portuguese: “Glenfield”
  • Prussian: “Glenfield”
  • Romagnol: “Glenfield”
  • Romanian: “Glenfield”
  • Romansh: “Glenfield”
  • Russian: “Гленфилд”
  • Sardinian: “Glenfield”
  • Scots: “Glenfield, Leicestershire”
  • Scots: “Glenfield”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Glenfield”
  • Serbian: “Glenfield”
  • Sicilian: “Glenfield”
  • Slovak: “Glenfield”
  • Spanish: “Glenfield”
  • Swahili: “Glenfield”
  • Swedish: “Glenfield, England”
  • Swedish: “Glenfield”
  • Swiss German: “Glenfield”
  • Tamil: “க்ளென்பிஎல்ட்”
  • Telugu: “గ్లెన్ఫీల్డ్”
  • Turkish: “Glenfield”
  • Urdu: “جلینفیلڈ”
  • Venetian: “Glenfield”
  • Vietnamese: “Glenfield”
  • Vlaams: “Glenfield”
  • Volapük: “Glenfield”
  • Walloon: “Glenfield”
  • Welsh: “Glenfield, Swydd Gaerlŷr”
  • Wolof: “Glenfield”
  • Zulu: “Glenfield”

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