Leicester

Worth seeing in and around Leicester

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   University of Leicester

   University in Leicester, United Kingdom

   2 km · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Leicester Cathedral

   Cathedral

   600 m · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Filbert Street

   Football ground of Leicester City (1891 to 2002)

   1.8 km · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Welford Road Stadium

   Rugby union stadium in Leicester, Leicestershire, England

   1.6 km · Wikipedia
5. 05
   De Montfort University

   University in Leicester, UK

   1.1 km · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Leicester Castle

   Castle in Leicester, England, UK

   900 m · Wikipedia
7. 07
   National Space Centre

   Space (and aerospace) museum in Belgrave, Leicester

   1.7 km · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Leicester Museum & Art Gallery

   Museum in Leicester, England, United Kingdom

   1.1 km · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Leicester Abbey

   Grade I listed building in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK

   1.2 km · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Abbey Park

    Public park in Leicester, England, UK

    1 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Getting to Leicester

Airports

East Midlands (EMA), 25 km · Birmingham (BHX), 46 km · London Luton (LTN), 100 km

Stations

Leicester railway station, 900 m

• Birmingham, West Midlands → Leicester

  55 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £6–9
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• Luton, Luton → Leicester

  97 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £10–14
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• London → Leicester

  143 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £15–20
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No local-transport research exists yet for Leicester

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Leicester. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

If you know how people move in Leicester – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.