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Holidays in Leicestershire.

Leicester, Loughborough, Castle Donnington, Market Bosworth, Melton Mowbray, Kegworth, Hinckley, Appleby Magna, Market Harborough, Shepshed, Coalville, Lutterworth.

Headquarters of Leicestershire County Council : Glenfield.  


car hire, holiday homes, hostels, hotels, travel agency, travel guides, transportation / travelling to leicestershire

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Camping & Caravanning 

 Eurocampings  -  ACSI Camping Guide

Car Rental

 Holiday Autos  -  
Holiday Autos offers the best fully inclusive car hire prices. Get cheap car hire quickly and securely online with holidayautos.co.uk, the experts in online car rental.

 
From Enhanced Hertz Driving Directions to Emergency Roadside Assistance, check out the many reasons why Hertz is #1 in Car Rental

Holiday Homes / Cottages & Apartments

   -  leading UK provider of self-catered holidays
Availability search [ refining by specifying price, pet, pub nearby, open fire, swimming pool and more possible ], special offers and brochure request.

  - Holiday Lodges and Holiday Parks Britain
A short break, or weekend, at one of our holiday parks gives you a real getaway, whatever the season. You'll find well-equipped and cosily heated bungalows, lodges, chalets, apartments and caravans in beautiful forest, countryside and coastal surroundings.

Hotels in Leicestershire

 Hotels in Leicestershire  -  Hotel Guide Leicestershire
Hotels in Leicester, Loughborough, Castle Donnington, Market Bosworth, Melton Mowbray, Kegworth, Hinckley, Appleby Magna, Market Harborough, Shepshed, Coalville, Lutterworth, and more ...

 
Ramada Jarvis Hotels Group is one of the UK's largest hotel companies with over 55 hotels in 50 locations.

Hostels / Budget Accommodations

 
Hostelbookers.com is one of the worlds largest online booking services for hostels. All hostels you see here are offering realtime prices and availability. We do not charge a fee to use this service.

 Youth Hostels England

Travel Agents / Tour Operators


Superbreak offer leisure hotel breaks and features 2-5 star hotels, with the majority in the 3-4 star+ rating.

  -  Theme park breaks
Play-and-Stay is one of the leading theme park providers

 
Widest choice of self-catering holidays / short breaks throughout Britain, Ireland and Europe
A self-catering holiday in one of Hoseasons' holiday lodges and parks brings a new meaning to the word freedom. From the moment you arrive you can revel in the limitless possibilities offered at every resort centre.
And with late availability and last minute booking facilities, you'll soon be experiencing the holiday of your dreams. Enjoy a weekend or short break in beautiful countryside, at some of Europe's finest beaches or forest surroundings.

  -  in England
Golfbreaks.com is the UK's premier service for organising Golf Breaks and Golf Days, providing tailor-made golfbreaks at discounted prices and hundreds of special offers!

  -  Create your perfect trip  -  Flight, Hotel and Car



Travel Guides England / related books

Travel Guides England [ Amazon.co.uk ]

The Rough Guide to England (Rough Guide Travel Guides) - By Jonathan Buckley, Robert Andrews (Editor)
Paperback 1152 pages (March 25, 2004); Publisher: Rough Guides

Transportation / How do I travel to Leicestershire

 Sheffield Airport [ SZD ]  -  Sheffield City Airport
 East Midlands [ EMA ]  -  East Midlands Airport
 Manchester [ MAN ]  -  Manchester Airport
 Robin Hood [ DSA ]  -  Robin Hood Airport
Close to the major cities of Sheffield, Leeds, Hull, York and Lincoln.
 Birmingham [ BHX ]  -  Birmingham International Airport
 Leeds Bradford [ LBA ]  -  Leeds Bradford International Airport
 Coventry [ CVT ]  -  Coventry Airport
 John Lennon [ LPL ]  -  Liverpool Airport
 Humberside [ HUY ]  -  Humberside Airport

  Opodo  -  
Flight tickets Leicestershire.

 
Book cheap flights to East Midlands at ebookers and benefit from discounted airfares. View their latest offers and book your flights, accommodation, car hire and insurance online.

  Airline Tickets / Bargain Flights  -  price comparison possible

 
thetrainline is the fully impartial rail ticketing website owned by the Virgin Group, Virgin Rail Group and National Express Group, providing the cheaper way to buy train tickets online. thetrainline provides fast, easy and secure access to timetables, tickets and fares for all National Rail journeys across the UK.

 Battlefield Line  -  Heritage Railway
A section of the Nuneaton - Coalville railway at nearby Shackerstone, seven miles south of Coalville, has been restored and reopened.

 - Around the UK
You name it, they go there. National Express carries over 16 million passengers a year to 1000 different places in the UK, and thousands of others to destinations across Europe and Ireland. They run more services to and from UK airports than anyone else, and they even lay on special services to festivals like Glastonbury!

 Traveline East Midlands
Impartial journey planning information about all public transport services - buses, coaches, trains and trams, throughout the East Midlands region.

 Maps International  -   
Mapsinternational.co.uk is one of the largest map shops online.

 Multimap.com 
Street-level maps, road maps; door-to-door travel directions; aerial photographs; and local information.


Links 

 Travel Insurance  -  online travel and holiday insurance for UK and Irish residents

 Leicestershire  -  Tourist Board Leicestershire
The largest population centre is Leicester, followed by Loughborough. Other major towns include Ashby-de -la-Zouch, Coalville, Hinckley, Market Harborough, Melton Mowbray, Oadby and Wigston.

 Leicestershire County Council

 Glenfield 
Satellite town and suburb of Leicester and site of the headquarters of Leicestershire County Council

 Blaby District Council
 Charnwood Borough Council
 Harborough District Council
 Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council 
 Melton Borough Council
 North West Leicestershire District Council
 Oadby & Wigston Borough Council

 Appleby Magna  -  village in rural Leicestershire
 Castle Donington  -  see Castle Donington on the Net
In the North West of Leicestershire, close to Derby and Nottingham. It's located on the edge of the National Forest and closest village to East Midlands Airport.
Castle Donington is home to the world famous Donington Park motor racing circuit.
 Coalville  -  town in Northwest Leicestershire  -  former coal-mining town
See Cpalville Twon Centre
 Kegworth
 Leicester  -  Leicester City Council
Leicester is a truly vibrant city, a strong regional shopping venue, the place to enjoy leading edge comedy, theatre and the arts and much more. See also Go Leicestershire.
 Loughborough  -  see Charnwood Borough Council
Administrative centre for the Charnwood district and home to Loughborough University.
 Lutterworth  -  Lutterworth Town Council 
Lutterworth is a market town in the Harborough district.
 Market Bosworth  -  small town in West Leicestershire
 Market Harborough  -  Administrative headquarters of the Harborough district
Located in a rural part of south Leicestershire, upon the River Welland and close to the Northamptonshire border.
 Melton Mowbray 
Located along the course of both the River Eye and the River Wreake and perhaps best known for its culinary specialities, being the home of both Melton Mowbray pork pies and of Stilton Cheese.
 Shepshed  -  village in the Charnwood borough
In early days a centre for the wool trade.

 Foxton Locks  -  ten canal locks consisting of two "staircases" each of five locks
Located on the Leicester line of the Grand Union Canal about 3 miles west of Market Harborough. The canal locks are named after the nearby village of Foxton in which you can find one of a very few remaining road 'swing bridges' over the canal.
 Donington Grand Prix Collection
World's largest collection of Formula One and Grand Prix vehicles.
 Donington Park motor racing circuit

 BBC Leicester
 Leicester Mercury
 Leicester Sound
 Sabras Sound
 MATV
 News  -  Lutterworth Observer
 News from East Midlands  -  BBC - East Midlands Today
 University of Leicester
 De Montfort University
 Loughborough University

Cuisine

 Melton Mowbray pork pies 
Pork pies are a type of meat pie and consist of roughly chopped pork and pork jelly sealed in a hot water crust pastry, and are normally eaten cold. See Wikipedia and also Pork Pie Appreciation Society.
 Stilton Cheese  -  see Wikipedia
Britain's historic blue cheese and Britain's favourite blue cheese. But produced in two varieties: the well-known blue and the lesser-known white.
 Stilton Cheesemakers' Association
Lighter than Gorgonzola, richer than Danish blue and more intense than UK blues, Britain's Historic Blue is causing a revolution in the kitchen. Its meltable, full-rounded qualities enliven salads and hors d'oeuvres, soups and sauces, as well as meat, vegetable and fruit dishes.

 Traditional foods in England

The Good Food Guide 2005 - by Andrew Turvil (Editor)
Paperback 784 pages (October 1, 2004)
English Food  by Jane Grigson, Gillian Zeiner (Illustrator), Sophie Grigson
Paperback 400 pages; Penguin Books Ltd; ISBN: 0140273247
Favourite Pudding Recipes: Traditional Ways to a Man's Heart  -  Birkett Foster
Paperback 48 pages; Publisher: J Salmon; ISBN: 1898435685

History Leicestershire

 Wartime Leicestershire

 Museums - Libraries - Archives East Midlands
This site is primarily aimed at museum workers, librarians and archivists from the region, but contains information that may also be of use to other regional bodies, local authority staff, teachers, the media, researchers, students, and the wider public.

I Never Knew That About England - by Christopher Winn
Hardcover 208 pages (April 13, 2005); Publisher: Ebury Press
 English Heritage
 National Trust

Music, Culture & Entertainment

 Loughborough Townhall  -  one of the most exciting venues in the East Midlands

 Culture East Midlands 

Web Portal / Search Engine / Directories

 Leicestershirevillages.com
Online community for residents of, and visitors to, Leicestershire.

 Yahoo Directory East Midlands 

 EMDA - East Midlands Development Agency 
 GOEM - Government Office East Midlands

 The Castles of England
 
 Ask Jeeves
 Google UK
 MSN UK 


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