Leicestershire

Leicestershire
Ceremonial county
Loughborough Carillon; the National Space Centre, Leicester; and Belvoir Castle
Leicestershire within England
Coordinates: 52.656°N 1.19°W / 52.656; -1.19
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	East Midlands
Established	Historic
Time zone	UTC±00:00 (Greenwich Mean Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+01:00 (British Summer Time)
Members of Parliament	10 MPs
Ceremonial county
Lord Lieutenant	Mike Kapur
High Sheriff	Henrietta Chubb (2023–24)
Area
• Ranked	of 48
Population (2005 est.)	915,800
• Ranked	21st of 48
Density	425/km2 (1,100/sq mi)
Ethnicity	87.5% White 8.2% Asian 2.2% Mixed 1.1% Black 1% Other
Non-metropolitan county
County council	Leicestershire County Council
Executive	Conservative
Admin HQ	County Hall, Glenfield
Area	2,083 km2 (804 sq mi)
• Ranked	of 26
Population	627,800
• Ranked	17th of 26
Density	301/km2 (780/sq mi)
ISO 3166-2	GB-LEC
GSS code	E10000018
ITL	TLF22
Website	leicestershire.gov.uk
Largest settlement	Leicester
Districts
Districts of Leicestershire   Unitary   County council area
Districts	North West Leicestershire Charnwood Melton Harborough Oadby and Wigston Blaby Hinckley and Bosworth Leicester

Leicestershire (abbreviated Leics) is a county in central England. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester, its traditional administrative centre, although the City of Leicester is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire. The county borders onto Lincolnshire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Nottinghamshire.

Leicestershire was recorded in the Domesday Book.

Other websites

• Leicester Mercury
• Wartime Leicestershire Archived 2018-12-08 at the Wayback Machine
• Official tourism website for Leicester & Leicestershire
• The Jitty, an information site for young people in Leicestershire
• Leicestershire Bands website