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Leicester Castle

Leicester Castle is in the in the English county of . The complex is situated in the west of Leicester City Centre, between Saint Nicholas Circle to the north and De Montfort University to the south.
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Church of St Mary de Castro, Leicester and Newarke Houses Museum.

Church
Photo: NotFromUtrecht, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Mary de Castro is a medieval Grade I listed church in , England, located within the of Leicester Castle. It is a Church of England parish church in the Diocese of Leicester.

Museum
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The is a public museum in , . It incorporates the museum of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment, and has a range of exhibits illustrating post-medieval and contemporary Leicester. is situated 350 feet southeast of Leicester Castle.

Church
Photo: NotFromUtrecht, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cathedral Church of Saint Martin, Leicester, commonly known as , is a Church of England cathedral in Leicester, England, and the seat of the Bishop of Leicester. is situated 1,100 feet northeast of Leicester Castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bede Island and Newfoundpool.

Suburb
is an area of , close to the city centre, with the to the west and to the east. For many years South was a run down area of brownfield land home to Vic Berry's locomotive scrapyard but in the 1990s urban regeneration sought to improve housing, employment opportunities and the environment in the area.

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.

Suburb
was an electoral ward and administrative division of the city of , , consisting of the residential suburb of St Marks.

Leicester Castle

Latitude
52.63237° or 52° 37′ 57″ north
Longitude
-1.14017° or 1° 8′ 25″ west
Elevation
207 feet (63 metres)
Open location code
9C4WJVJ5+WW
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1065559054
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Geo­Names ID
6287303
Wiki­data ID
Q6519156
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Belarusian to Welsh—“Leicester Castle” goes by many names.
  • Belarusian: “замак Лестэр”
  • Catalan: “Castell de Leicester”
  • Cebuano: “Leicester Castle”
  • Chinese: “莱斯特宫”
  • Chinese: “萊斯特城堡”
  • Danish: “Leicester Castle”
  • French: “château Leicester”
  • Galician: “Castelo de Leicester”
  • German: “Leicester Castle”
  • Greek: “Κάστρο του Λέστερ”
  • Hungarian: “Leicester-kastély”
  • Irish: “Caisleán Leicester”
  • Japanese: “レスター城”
  • Polish: “Zamek w Leicesterze”
  • Portuguese: “Castelo de Leicester”
  • Russian: “Замок Лестер”
  • Spanish: “Castillo de Leicester”
  • Swedish: “Leicester Castle”
  • Welsh: “Castell Caerlŷr”

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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 “Leicester Castle”. Photo: Kris1973, CC BY-SA 4.0.