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Historic sites near Leicester

What is protected, and what is open, within 10 miles of Leicester, Leicestershire.

2,290 protected sites

Most of these are listed buildings, and most listed buildings are private homes, terraces, walls and milestones rather than places to visit. The scheduled monuments are the older layer: earthworks, ruins, barrows and the remains of things that have no roof left.

Listed buildings
2,177
Scheduled monuments
101
Parks and gardens
12

Counted from the National Heritage List for England on 16 September 2026, within 10 miles of the centre of Leicester.

4 properties you can visit

Run by English Heritage and National Trust. These are the places with opening hours and a way in, as opposed to the register entries above.

  • Jewry WallEnglish Heritage · Leicester
  • Kirby Muxloe CastleEnglish Heritage · Kirby Muxloe
  • StoneywellNational Trust · Ulverscroft
  • Ulverscroft Nature ReserveNational Trust · Markfield

See all of it on one map

Visit History draws every site above on a single map, so you are not checking seven organisations one at a time. It also carries the Environment Agency LiDAR survey, which shows the shape of the ground itself, and six editions of Ordnance Survey mapping from 1885 onwards. Earthworks that are invisible on the ground and unmarked on modern maps are often obvious on both.

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