Birstall
Birstall is a large village and civil parish within the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England. It is three miles north of Leicester city centre and is part of the wider Leicester Urban Area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wesley Trevor Johnston, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 12,200 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Leicestershire, England
- Also known as: “Birstall, Leicestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St James the Great, Birstall and Birstall War Memorial.
Church of St James the Great, Birstall
Church
Photo: Kev747, Public domain.
The Church of St James the Great is a church in Birstall, Leicestershire. It is a Grade II listed building.
Watermead Country Park
Park
The Watermead Country Park is a network of artificial lakes in the valley of the River Soar and the old Grand Union Canal, in and to the north of Leicester and in and to the south of the Borough of Charnwood in Leicestershire.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Broadnook and Belgrave.
Belgrave
Suburb
Belgrave is an area, suburb, electoral ward and administrative division of the city of Leicester, in the ceremonial county of Leicestershire, England. Belgrave is the location of and known for several notable and famous landmarks such as the National Space Centre, Space Park Leicester, Abbey Pumping Station, the Golden Mile and Belgrave Hall. Belgrave is situated 1½ miles south of Birstall.
Latimer
Suburb
Latimer was an electoral ward and administrative division of the city of Leicester, England, consisting of the residential suburb of St Marks. Latimer is situated 2 miles south of Birstall.
Birstall
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Leicester, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.67698° or 52° 40′ 37″ northLongitude
-1.12037° or 1° 7′ 13″ westPopulation
12,200Elevation
180 feet (55 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BITOpen location code
9C4WMVGH+QVOpenStreetMap ID
node 6171011169OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Birstall” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Birstall (Leicestershire)”
- Basque: “Birstall”
- Bengali: “বির্সটল”
- Cebuano: “Birstall”
- Chinese: “比尔斯陶”
- Chinese: “比爾斯陶”
- Dutch: “Birstall”
- French: “Birstall”
- German: “Birstall”
- Gujarati: “બર્સ્ટોલ”
- Irish: “Birstall”
- Italian: “Birstall”
- Japanese: “バーストール”
- Kannada: “ಬರ್ಸ್ಟಾಲ್”
- Korean: “비스털”
- Ladin: “Birstall”
- Lithuanian: “Birstalas”
- Persian: “بیرستال، لسترشر”
- Polish: “Birstall”
- Portuguese: “Birstall”
- Russian: “Берстол”
- Scots: “Birstall, Leicestershire”
- Scots: “Birstall”
- Spanish: “Birstall”
- Swedish: “Birstall, Leicestershire”
- Swedish: “Birstall”
- Tamil: “பிரிஸ்டல்”
- Telugu: “బిర్స్టాల్”
- Turkish: “Birstall, Leicestershire”
- Urdu: “بیرستال”
- Welsh: “Birstall, Swydd Gaerlŷr”
- Welsh: “Birstall”
- “Birstall”
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Birstall”. Photo: Wesley Trevor Johnston, CC BY-SA 2.0.