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Leicester is a city and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England, on the River Soar, and the largest city in the region. It is best known as the resting place of King Richard III, whose tomb lies in Leicester Cathedral, and for the National Space Centre, the Roman Jewry Wall and its medieval Guildhall.
The Roman town of Ratae Corieltauvorum grew here on the Fosse Way, and the Vikings later made it one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw. Richard III spent his last days in the town before the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 and was buried at the Greyfriars, where his remains were found in 2012. In the Victorian age Leicester was known for hosiery and shoemaking, and it became a city in 1919.
With a population of 383,116 in 2025, Leicester has become an ethnically diverse city through immigration from the Commonwealth since the mid-20th century. It is home to Leicester City football club and the Leicester Tigers rugby club, and it was named the UK's Greatest Sporting City in 2016.
Leicester Cathedral, the Cathedral Church of Saint Martin in Leicester, became a cathedral in 1927 and is one of five surviving medieval churches in the centre. King Richard III was reburied here on 26 March 2015, and his tomb draws over 100,000 visitors a year to the church.
King Richard III Visitor Centre in Leicester, tells the story of Richard III and of the 2012 discovery of his remains under a car park on the site of the Greyfriars friary. Opened on 26 July 2014 in the former Alderman Newton's School, it lets visitors look down on the original grave.
The Guildhall in Leicester, is a timber-framed building whose Great Hall was built around 1390 for the Guild of Corpus Christi. It served as the town hall until 1876, hosting council meetings, feasts, trials and plays, and is Grade I listed. Shakespeare is reputed to have performed here.
The Haymarket Memorial Clock Tower in Leicester, stands where five main streets meet in the city centre. Designed by Joseph Goddard and built in 1868 of Ketton stone on a Mountsorrel granite base, it has statues of Simon de Montfort, Thomas White, William Wyggeston and Gabriel Newton.
The National Space Centre in Belgrave, Leicester, is a museum of space science and astronomy run with the University of Leicester. Its rockets stand in a tower clad in semi-transparent ETFE pillows, now a city landmark, and it has the largest planetarium in the United Kingdom.
Leicester Museum & Art Gallery on New Walk in Leicester, opened in 1849 as one of the first public museums in the UK, in a building by Joseph Hansom. Its displays cover science, history and art, with an Egyptian gallery and the Rutland Dinosaur, a 15 m cetiosaur skeleton found in 1968.
Newarke Houses Museum in Leicester, fills Wyggeston's Chantry House of about 1511 and the 17th-century Skeffington House on the De Montfort University campus. It holds the Royal Leicestershire Regiment museum, a 1950s Leicester street scene and the clothes and chair of Daniel Lambert.
Abbey Pumping Station in Leicester, is a museum of science and technology next to the National Space Centre. Built in 1891 to pump the town's sewage to a farm at Beaumont Leys, it keeps four steam-powered Woolf compound beam engines by Gimson and Company, which worked until 1964.
The Jewry Wall in Leicester, is a ruined wall of Roman masonry from about 125 to 130 AD, 23 m long and 8 m high, with two big arches. It formed the west wall of a public building in Ratae Corieltauvorum, and the foundations of the Roman baths beside it, dug in the 1930s, can be seen.
Abbey Park in Leicester, is the city's premier park, laid out by William Barron on the flood plain of the River Soar and opened on 29 May 1882. Since 1932 it has included the grounds of the medieval St Mary's Abbey, with its excavated foundations and the ruins of Cavendish House.
Victoria Park in Leicester, is a 69-acre park beside the University of Leicester that was a racecourse from 1806 to 1883 and opened as a park in 1882. Its Arch of Remembrance, a Grade I listed First World War memorial by Edwin Lutyens, was built in 1923 at the top of the Peace Walk.
Bradgate Park is an 850-acre public park in Charnwood Forest, north-west of Leicester, crossed by the River Lin. Its best-known landmarks are the Old John folly and the war memorial on the hill, and Lady Jane Grey, the Nine Days Queen, was born at Bradgate House in the park in about 1537.
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