City guide
Leicester
History, curry and football.
- ✦ King Power Stadium: home of Leicester City
- ✦ King Richard III Visitor Centre
- ✦ Golden Mile: the UK's best Indian food
- ✦ Highcross shopping & the Cathedral Quarter
Local guides
Explore Leicestershire
Our favourite places near your stay, picked by the Norton team.
Town guide
Loughborough
Steam trains, students and green spaces.
- ✦ Great Central Railway heritage steam line
- ✦ Loughborough University campus & sport
- ✦ Queen's Park and the Carillon tower
- ✦ Charnwood Forest walks on the doorstep
Days out
Leicestershire outdoors
Easy escapes for families.
- ✦ Bradgate Park: deer and Lady Jane Grey's ruins
- ✦ Beacon Hill country park views
- ✦ Twycross Zoo, 30 minutes away
- ✦ Foxton Locks canal-side pubs