An historic market town famous for its Pork packed pies and Stilton cheeses, both are savoured all over Britain and in many other countries...
This is a quiet rural village situated in one of the highest parts of the rolling Leicestershire countryside...
Rothley is a delightful village with two village greens, one is flanked by some of the country's finest timber framed houses. The village shows a graceful selection of architecture including pretty Cruck Cottages...
Quorn can be found between Leicester and Loughborough, it is surrounded by magnificent countryside and a wealth of visitor attractions...
For centuries the countryside around Oakham has echoed to the sound of hunting horns, for the vales and rolling farmland surrounding this sedate market town, have been the stamping ground for the counties hunting fraternity...
The joyous sound of bells made in Loughborough have been rung all over the world since 1858, the date that John Taylor of Oxford moved his foundry to Loughborough. Many famous.....
Leicester is famed amongst other things for its fine parish church which was raised to Cathedral status in 1927...
One of the most attractive features of Anstey is the famous 14th century five arched pack-horse bridge crossing the River Wreake...
The tiny hamlet of Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth lies in spacious rural countryside in the valley of the River Witham...
Easter Monday sees the villages of Hallaton and Medbourne engaged in a riotous 'bottle kicking' contest which is said to have pagan origins...
The village lies on the southern shores of Rutland Water, one of Europe's largest man-made reservoirs, and England's premier fly fishing waters...
Normanton lies in a landscape of rolling farmlands, broken only by rivers and patches of woodland. It is a tranquil place, with the waters offering scope for sailing and other water-sports, bird-watching, fishing, and cycling...
Bisbrooke lies amidst a landscape of gentle hills dotted with rolling farmlands, rivers, reservoirs and woodland...
Beeston is mostly remarkable for being the place where the Ist Lord Trent started work in his mother's herbal shop at the age of 14...
The City of Nottingham is famed for fine lace, the romance of Maid Marion and Robin Hood and as the birthplace of the founder of the Salvation Army, General William Booth (1829-1912)...
Long Eaton is a small town lying on the River Trent around 8 miles east of Derby. The town has a history stretching back to the 7th century, but was for many centuries naught but a sleepy agricultural village...
This delightful town, set on the River Witham in a spacious agricultural region is noted for many historic factors but more latterly as the birthplace of Britains first woman Primne Minister - Margaret Thatcher was born here in 1925 and she became Prime Minister in 1979...
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The popular village of Belton lying north of Grantham is home to magnificent Belton House. It is also a typical "Estate" village which perfectly epitomises all the values of English country life...
Modern day history records that this was the village chosen as The Festival of Britain Village, at the time it was considered to epitomise the spirit of British rural community life...
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This is Leicester's leading Museum of Archaeology, showing an extensive range Roman finds as well as other unique historic relics.....
Comprising of 850 acres of land with roaming deer, Bradgate Park is Leicestershire's largest and most popular country.....
A castle has stood on this spot since the 11th-century, it was built by Robert de Todini, standard-bearer to William the.....
Standing on a hill overlooking Bradgate Park, Old John Tower folly.....
The second highest point in Leicestershire at 245m (802 feet) and containing a Bronze Age hill fort, Beacon Hill Country Park.....
Rutland Water is the largest reservoir in England (by surface area) and one of the largest artificial lakes in Europe. Its.....
Called a manor but in reality this is the farmhouse where Isaac Newton was born in 1642. The house remains very much during.....
This superb mansion containing Nottingham's museum and art gallery sits on a green and pleasant mound high above the city. It.....
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From the outside, Wollaton Hall could easily be mistaken for a grand Victorian mansion - even though it was built when Sir.....
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Belton is the perfect example of a home belonging to an English country gentleman, and yet it is a delightful Anglo-Dutch.....
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Imposing church built in 1653, with fine panelled interior, set in attractive parkland...
Looking around the romantic ruin of Kirby Hall it is easy to imagine the splendour of an age when romance was all, and great.....
