Leicestershire
Leicestershire is a county in the East Midlands region of England. Its traditional capital is the county city of Leicester.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Leicester and Loughborough.
Leicester
Leicester is the largest city in the East Midlands region of England, the capital of the traditional county of Leicestershire, with a population of almost 370,000 in the city and 510,000 in the urban area.
Loughborough
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Loughborough is a market town in the Charnwood Borough of Leicestershire, England; it is the administrative centre of Charnwood Borough Council. At the United Kingdom 2021 census, the town's built-up area had a population of 64,884.
Hinckley
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Hinckley is a town in Leicestershire, close to Nuneaton in neighbouring Warwickshire. It is roughly halfway between the major cities of Leicester and Coventry.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Melton Mowbray and Market Harborough.
Melton Mowbray
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Melton Mowbray, usually referred to locally as just Melton, is a market town in the county of Leicestershire, England. It is famous for the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie and as the centre of Stilton Cheese production.
Market Harborough
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Market Harborough is a market town of 25,000 people on the River Welland in Leicestershire, England.
Ashby-de-la-Zouch
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Ashby-de-la-Zouch is a market town in Leicestershire, England. Ashby de la Zouch Castle was an important fort in the 15th to 17th centuries.
Coalville
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Coalville is a town in the district of North West Leicestershire in Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. In 2011, it had a population of 34,575.
Castle Donington
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Castle Donington is a market village and civil parish in Leicestershire, England, on the edge of the National Forest and close to East Midlands Airport.
Appleby Magna
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Appleby Magna is a village and civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district, in the county of Leicestershire, England. It includes the small hamlets of Appleby Parva and Little Wigston.
Leicestershire
- Type: Region with 1,030,000 residents
- Description: ceremonial county in England
- Also known as: “Ceremonial County Leicestershire” and “Leicestershire, England”
- Neighbors: Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, and Warwickshire
- Category: ceremonial county of England
- Location: East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Leicestershire” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Leicestershire”
- Albanian: “Leicestershire”
- Arabic: “ليسترشير”
- Aragonese: “Leicestershire”
- Armenian: “Լեսթերշիր”
- Armenian: “Լեստերշիր”
- Asturian: “Leicestershire”
- Azerbaijani: “Lesterşir”
- Balinese: “Leicestershire”
- Basque: “Leicestershire”
- Bavarian: “Leicestershire”
- Belarusian: “Графства Лестэршыр”
- Belarusian: “Лестэршыр”
- Belarusian: “Лэстэршыр”
- Bengali: “লিচেস্টারশায়ার”
- Bosnian: “Leicestershire”
- Breton: “Leicestershire”
- Bulgarian: “Лестършър”
- Catalan: “Leicestershire”
- Cebuano: “Leicestershire”
- Chinese: “Leicestershire”
- Chinese: “李斯特郡”
- Chinese: “莱斯特郡”
- Chinese: “萊斯特郡”
- Chinese: “里斯特郡”
- Cornish: “Leicestershire”
- Croatian: “Leicestershire”
- Czech: “Leicestershire”
- Danish: “Leicestershire”
- Dutch: “Leicestershire”
- Esperanto: “Leicestershire”
- Estonian: “Leicestershire”
- Faroese: “Leicestershire”
- Finnish: “Leicestershire”
- French: “Leicestershire”
- Galician: “Leicestershire”
- Georgian: “ლესტერშირი”
- German: “Leicestershire”
- Greek: “Λέστερσιρ”
- Gujarati: “લીકેસ્ટરશાયર”
- Hakka Chinese: “Leicestershire”
- Hebrew: “לסטרשייר”
- Hindi: “लेस्टरशायर”
- Hungarian: “Leicestershire”
- Icelandic: “Leicestershire”
- Indonesian: “Leicestershire”
- Interlingua: “Leicestershire”
- Irish: “Leicestershire”
- Italian: “Leicestershire”
- Japanese: “レスターシャー”
- Javanese: “Leicestershire”
- Kannada: “ಲೈಸೆಸ್ಟರ್ಷೈರ್”
- Korean: “레스터셔주”
- Kurdish: “Leicestershire”
- Ladin: “Leicestershire”
- Latin: “Leicestriensis comitatus”
- Latvian: “Lesteršīra”
- Lithuanian: “Lesteršyras”
- Low German: “Leicestershire”
- Luxembourgish: “Leicestershire”
- Macedonian: “Лестершир”
- Manx: “Leicestershire”
- Marathi: “लेस्टरशायर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Leicestershire”
- Minangkabau: “Leicestershire”
- Northern Frisian: “Leicestershire”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Leicestershire”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Leicestershire”
- Norwegian: “Leicestershire”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Leicestershire”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lægreceastrescir”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lægreċeastresċīr”
- Ossetian: “Лестершир”
- Persian: “لسترشایر”
- Persian: “لسترشر”
- Polish: “Leicestershire”
- Portuguese: “Leicestershire”
- Romanian: “Leicestershire”
- Romansh: “Leicestershire”
- Russian: “Лестершир”
- Scots: “Leicestershire”
- Serbian: “Лестершир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Leicestershire”
- Slovak: “Leicestershire”
- Slovenian: “Leicestershire”
- Spanish: “Leicestershire”
- Swedish: “Leicestershire”
- Swiss German: “Leicestershire”
- Tajik: “Лестершир”
- Tamil: “லேய்ஸ்ஸ்டேர்ஸயர்”
- Telugu: “లెసెస్టర్ షైర్”
- Thai: “เลสเตอร์เชอร์”
- Turkish: “Leicestershire”
- Turkish: “Torensel Leicestershire Kontluğu”
- Ukrainian: “Лестершир”
- Urdu: “لیسٹرشائر”
- Venetian: “contea de Leicester”
- Vietnamese: “Leicestershire”
- Volapük: “Leicestershire”
- Waray (Philippines): “Leicestershire”
- Welsh: “Swydd Gaerlŷr”
- Western Frisian: “Leicestershire”
- Western Panjabi: “لیسسٹرشائر”
- Wu Chinese: “莱斯特郡”
- Yiddish: “לעסטערשיר”
- Yue Chinese: “李斯特郡”
- Yue Chinese: “里斯特郡”
- “Leicestershire”
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