Leicestershire Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Leicestershire
Geography
Status:	Ceremonial & (smaller) Administrative County
Region:	East Midlands
Area: - Total - Admin. council - Admin. area	Ranked 28th 2,156 kmē Ranked 26th 2,083 kmē
Admin HQ:	Leicester
:	GB-LEC
ONS code:	31
NUTS 3:	UKF22
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop.	Ranked 21st 899,069 417 / km² Ranked 17th 615,491
Ethnicity:	85.0% White 11.9% S.Asian 1.2% Afro-Carib.
Politics
Leicestershire County Council http://www.leics.gov.uk/
Executive:	Conservative
Members of Parliament
Stephen Dorrell, Alan Duncan, Edward Garnier, Parmjit Singh Gill, Patricia Hewitt, Andy Reed, Andrew Robathan, David Taylor, David Tredinnick, Keith Vaz
Districts
Charnwood Melton Harborough Oadby and Wigston Blaby Hinckley and Bosworth North West Leicestershire Leicester (Unitary)

Leicestershire is a landlocked county in central England. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester which has traditionally been its administrative centre, but is now a unitary authority administratively separate from Leicestershire. It borders onto Leicester, Rutland, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire and Staffordshire, and contains part of the National Forest.

The population of Leicestershire (excluding Leicester) is 609,579 (2001). The county covers an area of 2,084 sq km (804 sq mi).

Leicestershire's administrative centre is Leicestershire County Council County Hall

Table of contents

1 History 2 Towns and villages 3 Places of interest

History

Main article: History of Leicestershire.

Leicestershire was recorded in the Domesday Book in four wapentakes: Guthlaxton, Framland, Goscote and Gartree. These later became hundredss, with the division of Goscote into West Goscote and East Goscote, and the addition of Sparkenhoe hundred.

Leicestershire's external boundaries have changed little since the Domesday Survey. The Measham-Donisthorpe exclave of Derbyshire has been exchanged for the Netherseal/Overseall area, and the urban expansion of Market Harborough has caused Little Bowdon, previously in Northamptonshire to be annexed.

In 1974, due to the Local Government Act 1972, the county of Rutland was annexed to Leicestershire as a district, and Leicester's county borough status was abolished, it becoming a district also. Both these actions were reversed on April 1, 1996.

Towns and villages

• Anstey, Arnesby, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Ashby Magna, Aston Flamville
• Barrow-on-Soar, Barwell, Birstall, Blaby, Bottesford, Breedon on the Hill, Broughton Astley, Burbage, Burton on the Wolds Bushby, Beeby, Billesdon
• Cadeby, Coalville, Countesthorpe, Croft
• Desford, Donisthorpe
• Earl Shilton, East Norton, Edith Weston, Enderby
• Gaddesby, Glenfield, Groby
• Hallaton, Hinckley, Horninghold, Husbands Bosworth, Hungarton, Houghton on the Hill
• Ibstock
• Kegworth, Kirby Muxloe
• Little Dalby, Loughborough, Lutterworth
• Market Bosworth, Market Harborough, Measham, Melton Mowbray, Moira, Mountsorrel
• Newton Harcourt, Newtown Linford, Normanton
• Oadby
• Peatling Parva
• Queniborough, Quorndon
• Rothley
• Shackerstone, Shearsby, Sheepy Magna, Sheepy Parva, Shepshed, Sileby, Stoney Stanton, Sutton Cheney, Swinford, Syston
• Thurmaston, Thurnby, Twycross
• Waltham-on-the-Wolds, Whitwick, Walton, Wigston, Woodhouse Eaves, Wycomb

Places of interest

• The Battlefield Line, a heritage railway
• Belvoir Castle
• Bosworth Battlefield
• Bradgate Park
• Donington Park
• East Midlands Airport
• Foxton Locks
• Launde Abbey
• Leicester Botanic Gardens
• Moira Furnace
• Stanford Hall
• Twycross Zoo

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