Leicestershire
Leicestershire (forkortes Leics) er et ceremonielt grevskab i East Midlands.
Administrativ opdeling
[redigér | rediger kildetekst]Grevskabet består af City of Leicester, der er en selvstyrende kommune og det administrative grevskab, der delt i syv kommuner (districts), som hører under grevskabsrådet (Leicestershire County Council).
Geografi
[redigér | rediger kildetekst]Grevskabet grænser op til Nottinghamshire mod nord, Lincolnshire mod nordøst, Rutland mod øst, Northamptonshire mod sydøst, Warwickshire mod sydvest, Staffordshire mod vest of Derbyshire mod nordvest.
Byer
[redigér | rediger kildetekst]Seværdigheder
[redigér | rediger kildetekst]- Ab Kettleby Manor
- Abbey Pumping Station
- Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal
- Ashby Castle
- Arnesby May Fayre
- The Battlefield Line
- Beacon Hill
- Beaumanor Hall
- Belgrave Hall & Gardens
- Belvoir Castle
- Bosworth Battlefield
- Bradgate Park
- Brampton Valley Way (former railway path to Northampton)
- Breedon Hill (Iron Age hill fort and Saxon church)
- Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome and proving ground
- Burrough Hill Iron Age Hill Fort
- Charnwood Forest
- Charnwood Museum
- Cold Overton Hall
- Donington le Heath Manor House Museum
- Donington Park and the Donington Grand Prix Collection museum
- East Midlands Airport
- Eyebrook Reservoir
- Fosse Shopping Park
- Foxton Locks
- Great Central Railway (heritage railway)
- Grace Dieu Manor
- Grace Dieu Priory
- Groby Old Hall
- Harborough Museum
- High Cross (Roman settlement)
- Kirby Muxloe Castle
- Launde Abbey
- Leicester Abbey Park
- Leicester Abbey ruins
- Leicester Castle
- Leicester Cathedral
- Leicester Guildhall
- Leicester Jewry Wall Museum
- Leicester New Walk (Regency promenade following the Roman Via Devana)
- Leicester New Walk Museum & Art Gallery
- Lowesby Hall
- Lutterworth (historic market town)
- Lutterworth Church (home of the Lutterworth Wall Paintings)
- Mallory Park
- Market Bosworth (historic market town)
- Market Harborough (historic market town)
- Melton Mowbray (historic market town)
- Melton Carnegie Museum
- Moira Furnace
- Mount St. Bernard Abbey
- National Space Centre
- The National Forest and Conkers
- Nevill Holt Hall
- Newark Houses Museum
- Quenby Hall
- Quorn Hall
- Shenton Hall
- Snibston Discovery Museum
- Stanford Hall
- Stoney Cove the National Diving Centre
- Stoneywell
- Stapleford Miniature Railway
- Stapleford Park
- Swithland Reservoir
- Swithland Wood
- Twinlakes Theme Park
- Twycross Zoo
- Ulverscroft Priory[2]
- University of Leicester Botanic Garden
- Watermead Country Park
- Wigston Framework Knitters Museum[3]
- Wistow Hall
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Referencer
[redigér | rediger kildetekst]- ^ Ref for table. "Figure 1: Explore population characteristics of individual BUAs". Hentet 4. april 2024.
- ^ "Ulverscroft". Charnwood Borough Council. 26. juni 2006. Arkiveret fra originalen 26. juni 2006.
- ^ "Wigston Framework Knitters Museum, Leicester". Knitting Together. 23. juli 2005. Arkiveret fra originalen 23. juli 2005.
Eksterne henvisninger
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