Tag: Leicester

Leicester (/lɛstər/ less-tər  pronunciation (help·info)) is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest. In 2006, the population of the Leicester unitary authority was estimated at 289,700, the highest in the region, whilst 441,213 people lived in the wider Leicester Urban Area, making Leicester the eleventh most populous settlement in the United Kingdom and the UK’s fifteenth largest urban conurbation, the second largest in the East Midlands behind Nottingham. Eurostat’s Larger Urban Zone listed the population of the area at 772,400 people as of 2004.
Ancient Roman pavements and baths remain in Leicester from its early settlement as Ratae Corieltauvorum, a Roman military outpost in a region inhabited by the Celtic Corieltauvi tribe. Following the demise of Roman society the early medieval Ratae Corieltauvorum is shrouded in obscurity, but when the settlement…