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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Leicester City Centre


Visit Leicester City Centre PlacesVisit Leicester City Centre places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Leicester City Centre places to visit. A unique way to experience Leicester City Centre’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Leicester City Centre as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.

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Leicester City Centre is Leicester’s historical commercial, cultural and transport hub and is home to its central business district. Its inner core is roughly delineated by the A594, Leicester’s inner ring road. University of Leicester, De Monfort University and Leicester College could be considered to be a continuation of the City centre. Politically, the city centre is split between the City Council wards of Abbey and Castle. When you visit Leicester City Centre, Walkfo brings Leicester City Centre places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

  

Leicester City Centre Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Leicester City Centre


Visit Leicester City Centre – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit

Leicester City Centre photo With 148 audio plaques & Leicester City Centre places for you to explore in the Leicester City Centre area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Leicester City Centre places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.

Leicester City Centre history


The old city

Leicester City Centre The old city photo

The historic city of Leicester was founded by the Romans as Ratae Corieltauvorum. It is thought that the later medieval walls and gates were in approximately the same positions as the Roman ones. Leicester Castle lay on the south-western corner of the walls, and the Newarke was a separate walled area nearby. The town’s main gates were sold and demolished in the late 18th century.

Modern developments

Leicester City Centre Modern developments photo

With increasing development, the focal point moved eastwards, with the Haymarket Memorial Clock Tower roundabout seeing the five-way junction of the London to Manchester, Birmingham to Yarmouth and Fosse Way roads. Much of this old area of town is now in various conservation areas. Outside of the ringroad, but close by, are the main campus of De Montfort University, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester City Football Club’s King Power Stadium, the Leicester Tigers’ Welford Road stadium and the prison. The University of Leicester is further away to the south, linked by the pedestrian-only path New Walk.

Leicester City Centre geography / climate

LE1 Postal district

The postal district LE1 is close to the area covered inside ring-road, but is somewhat larger. LE1 includes the St Matthew’s estate, and extends north as far north as the River Soar. Humberstone Road is the only area not part of LE1.

Nearby places

To the west, the city centre borders the river, on the other side of this is the West End of Leicester. To the south-east it borders Highfields, to the east, St Matthew’s, and to the north-east, Belgrave.

Why visit Leicester City Centre with Walkfo Travel Guide App?


Visit Leicester City Centre PlacesYou can visit Leicester City Centre places with Walkfo Leicester City Centre to hear history at Leicester City Centre’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Leicester City Centre has 148 places to visit in our interactive Leicester City Centre map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Leicester City Centre, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Leicester City Centre places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Leicester City Centre & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 148 audio facts unique to Leicester City Centre places in an interactive Leicester City Centre map you can explore.”

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148 tourist, history, culture & geography spots


 

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Walkfo Leicester City Centre tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Leicester City Centre

  

Best Leicester City Centre places to visit


Leicester City Centre has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Leicester City Centre’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Leicester City Centre’s information audio spots:

Leicester City Centre photo Winstanley House
Winstanley House in Leicestershire is Grade II listed on the English Heritage Register . It was built in 1775 and remained in this family for the next 150 years before being bought by Leicester City Council in 1925 . Today it has been converted into a hotel and restaurant .
Leicester City Centre photo GNG F.C.
Guru Nanak Gurdwara Football Club is a football club based in Leicester, East Midlands . They are currently members of the Leicestershire Senior League Premier Division .
Leicester City Centre photo Aylestone Meadows
Aylestone Meadows is an 8.8-hectare (22-acre) Local Nature Reserve in Leicester . It is Leicester’s largest nature reserve situated on the floodplains of the River Soar and River Biam along with several locks of the Grand Union Canal . A medieval packhorse bridge provides evidence of trade and previous settlement .
Leicester City Centre photo St Andrews F.C. (England)
St Andrews Football Club are a football club based in Aylestone, a suburb of Leicester, England . They play in the United Counties League Division One, having been relegated from the Premier Division at the end of the 2017–18 season .
Leicester City Centre photo Friar Lane & Epworth F.C.
Friar Lane & Epworth F.C. are a football club based in Aylestone, a suburb of Leicester. They currently play in the Leicestershire Senior League Premier Division. They have reached the second round of the FA Cup twice in their short history.
Leicester City Centre photo Grace Road
Grace Road is the home ground and administrative base of Leicestershire County Cricket Club. It is known for sponsorship reasons as the Uptonsteel County Ground, Grace Road.
Leicester City Centre photo Towers Hospital
The Towers Hospital was a mental health facility in Humberstone, Leicestershire. The administration building, which became known as George Hine House, is a Grade II listed building.
Leicester City Centre photo St Saviour’s Church, Leicester
St Saviour’s Church, Leicester is a Grade II* listed former parish church in the Church of England in Leicester, Leicestershire.
Leicester City Centre photo Beaumont Leys
Beaumont Leys is a suburb and electoral ward in north-western Leicester. The population of the ward at the 2011 census was 16,480. Locally used in reference to the large housing estate, built within the administrative division.
Leicester City Centre photo Woodgate, Leicester
Woodgate is an area in Leicester in Fosse Ward. It lies west of the River Soar and is an important entrance to the city leading on to Frog Island. The Rally Park was formerly the goods yard of the London Midland Railway.

Visit Leicester City Centre plaques


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Leicester City Centre has 37 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Leicester City Centre plaques audio map when visiting. Plaques like National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened – and Walkfo’s AI has researched additional, deeper content when you visit Leicester City Centre using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Leicester City Centre plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.