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1 Review and 303 Opinions not great if you want to be close to the city centre otherwise its a great place and very close to...
1 Review and 270 Opinions The Belmont is an older property very convenient to the train station and the University of...
1 Review and 303 Opinions We've stayed here a couple of times on business trips and it really is more a business than a...
leics Says: Old John is a 'folly' in Bradgate Park, built for no reason other than to look good in the landscape. The story goes that it is a memorial to an old family...
leics Says: Bradgate Park originally belonged to Bradgate House, the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey who was beheaded in Tudor times. You can still see the ruins of the...
bonio Says: A long overdue visit for us, and an enjoyable aftenoon for our friends Kiyo and Kana - visiting from Inuyama, Japan.The railway runs from Loughborough to...
Make a Pork Pie ar melton Mowbray
Gwynfiguy Says: One of the most famous places in leicestershire is the Village of Melton Mowbray (where the pork pies come from). A small village which unfortunately due to...
Upton Barn: Locally grown food
Gwynfiguy Says: Ranging fro snacks to Venison and steaksnot too expensive. A take away menu is available for the adjacent caravan & camping site. Venison in red wine sauce...
Visit the Battle field at Bosworth
Gwynfiguy Says: We went to Leicestershire over the weekend and whilst there visited Bosworth Field the scene of the battle for the crown of England in 1485.The battle was...
The Swan Inn, Mountsorrel: It's a riverside pub, actually.
leics Says: Old, dim, flagstones, newspapers inside. Shady garden outside by the river Soar, with ducks and weeping willows. Good beer.Good food too, reasonable prices;...
stevezero Says: Staunton Harold Reservoir is a stretch of water owned by Severn trent, but available for the public for walks, angling, boating and other water sports. It sits...
Nottingham East Midland Airport
stevezero Says: Nottingham East Midland Airport is badly named as it is actually in Leicestershire. It is now an important gateway for air travel to and from the east midlands...
stevezero Says: We only had an hour or so to spare to look around the castle, which really was not enough, this is one that we must return to one day.Ashby-de-la-Zouch Castle...
stevezero Says: Ashby-de-la-Zouch is a small market town in the North West of Leicestershire. It lies within the National Forest, has a population of 12,758 (2001 census), and...
leics Says: DMV is archaeologists' shorthand for 'deserted Medieval village'. Leicestershire has quite a lot of these, some depopulated because of Plague but most because...
Leicestershire is a typically English county in many ways. Gently rolling countryside, arable and dairy farming, occupation since prehistory and a small amount of light industry (traditionally, boots,...
Leicestershire has always been for us a place you pass through on the way to somewhere else, usually the international gateway of Nottingham East Midlands Airport (badly named or what!) However we...
Leicester, Centre of The World (Plus Berwick)
OK, not a huge amount to say about the beauties of Leicester. It's a great city and I like it a lot, but it's not Rome or Paris so I'll keep it to where it is. It's marked on the map with an X. Also...
As I live and work in the Midlands I obviously spend quite a lot of time around the various counties finding places to visit and nice pubs to go for a drink and a meal. On this page I'll try to add...
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