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Attractions near LE5 6HQ

Leicester Racecourse (2 Miles)*
Extending to 200 acres and steeped in more than 100 years of history, the Leicester Racecourse estate provides the perfect venue for the private or business client.

National Gas Museum (3 Miles)*
At the Gas Museum you will gain a fascinating insight into the story of gas past and present, with particular reference to the East Midlands region.

National Space Centre (3 Miles)*
The award winning National Space Centre is the UK's largest attraction dedicated to space.

Gorse Hill City Farm (4 Miles)*
See the daily workings of the farm. Feed and touch the animals within a relaxed and friendly environment.

Great Central Railway (11 Miles)*
The Great Central Railway is Britain's only double track main line heritage railway. The stations of this railway are restored to different periods of the main line's history.

Harborough Museum (11 Miles)*
Local Museum of Market Harborough, including Symington Collection of Corsetry.

Melton Carnegie Museum (12 Miles)*
This exciting newly refurbished museum contains informative and innovative displays.

The Manor House (14 Miles)*
Step back in time and experience how people really lived in Medieval, Tudor and Stuart Times at Donington le Heath Manor House.

Rutland County Museum (14 Miles)*
The Rutland County Museum is a warm ironstone building, erected in 1794-95 on the site of maltings by Sir Gerard Noel Edwards

Oakham Castle (14 Miles)*
The splendid Great Hall of Oakham Castle is one of the finest examples of late 12th century domestic architecture in England.

Snibston (14 Miles)*
Visit Snibston and see the £1.4 million makeover. Try and lift a Mini Cooper in the brand new hands on gallery Extra Ordinary, which shows how technology has affected our every day life.

Stanford Hall (15 Miles)*
Stanford, where Shakespeare's Avon flows gently through the Park, has been the home of the Cave family, ancestors of the present owner Lady Braye since 1430.

Bosworth Water Trust Leisure and Water Park (15 Miles)*
Bosworth Water Trust is a 50 acre leisure park with 20 acres of lakes for dinghy, boardsailing and fishing.

Kelmarsh Hall and Gardens (16 Miles)*
Kelmarsh is a 3,363 acre (1361ha) agricultural estate at the heart of which stands the eighteenth century Kelmarsh Hall, surrounded by its pleasure gardens and parkland.

Barnsdale Gardens (17 Miles)*
The Barnsdale Gardens familiar to millions of BBC2 viewers as the home of Geoff Hamilton and Gardeners World is open every day. The gardens comprise 37 individual gardens and features that all blend together by linking borders into one 8 acre garden.

* Distances shown are in a direct line. Distances by road will be longer.

Towns near LE5 6HQ

Humberstone (1 Mile)*

Thurnby (1 Mile)*

Evington (2 Miles)*

Great Stretton (3 Miles)*

Belgrave (3 Miles)*

Oadby (3 Miles)*

Leicester (3 Miles)*
Leicester is one of the few cities in England that can trace its growth from the Iron Age. In Leicester you can travel through the ages, and learn about the history of the city in its excellent Museums, and by taking an Old Town Heritage Trail

Wigston (3 Miles)*

Houghton on the Hill (3 Miles)*

Aylestone (4 Miles)*

Little Stretton (4 Miles)*

Great Glen (4 Miles)*

Birstall (4 Miles)*
Birstall has become a major dormitory area for Leicester, but there are several examples of its earlier history in evidence.

Braunstone (4 Miles)*

Glen Parva (4 Miles)*
Glen Parva - The Manor House is of interest, dating back to the 14th century and local records suggest that the ill-fated King Charles I stayed there after the Battle of Naseby.

Hungerton (4 Miles)*

Burton Overy (5 Miles)*

Kilby (5 Miles)*
Kilby - A medieval village once surrounded the church at Kilby. The church itself was built on the site of an earlier structure in the year 1858.

Blaby (5 Miles)*
Much of the older part of Blaby village has been designated as a conservation area. It includes the 12th century parish church of All Saints, a thatched and timbered inn dating from about 1485.

Syston (5 Miles)*
In Victorian times Syston was a busy cattle dealing town. There is still evidence of the late 18th century development in its conservation area around the parish church of St. Peter.

Queniborough (5 Miles)*
Queniborough is a pleasing conservation village with visible links back to the Civil War period. A 175 feet high crocketed spire, acknowledged by Pevsner to be one of the finest in Leicestershire, caps St. Mary's Church.

Countesthorpe (5 Miles)*
The name Countesthorpe comes from the 11th century when the area formed part of the marriage dowry of the Countess Judith niece of William the Conqueror, 'thorpe' having the gothic meaning of 'land'.

Illston on the Hill (5 Miles)*

Whetstone (6 Miles)*
Whetstone - The 1086 Domesday Survey records Whetstone as having 24 peasants, 11 villeins, one man at arms and a windmill.

Glenfield (6 Miles)*
Glenfield has a prominent place in railway history, with the opening of the Swannington Leicester line, the first railway line south of Manchester.

* Distances shown are in a direct line. Distances by road will be longer.