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In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a "nationally important" archaeological site or historic building that has been given protection against unauthorised change. [1] Scheduled monuments are defined in the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 and the National Heritage Act 1983. They are also referred to as scheduled ...
On Monday 5 November 2007 both the Leicester Mercury and The Sun printed articles on a hoax petition, set up by local man Luke Anthony Williams. Over 3000 people joined a Facebook group to save the Clock Tower, even though plans to demolish the monument were fictitious: the only evidence that he could provide was a Wikipedia edit made by ...
Victoria Park is a 35-hectare (86-acre) area of open land to the south-east of Leicester city centre. Formerly a racetrack, it was laid out as a public park in the late 19th century. [3] At the beginning of the First World War, five part-time Territorial Force units were based in Leicester, along with elements of the regular Leicestershire ...
Leicester City Centre is Leicester's historical commercial, cultural and transport hub and is home to its central business district. Its inner core is roughly delineated by the A594, Leicester's inner ring road, although the various central campuses of the University of Leicester, De Montfort University and Leicester College are adjacent to the inner ring road and could be considered to be a ...
King Richard III Visitor Centre is a museum in Leicester, England that showcases the life of King Richard III and the story of the discovery, exhumation, and reburial of his remains in 2012–2015. For a long time, the burial place of Richard III was uncertain, although the site of his burial was assumed to be in a Leicester car park.
Pages in category "Scheduled monuments in Leicester" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
There are 208 scheduled monuments in the county of Leicestershire, England. [1] These protected sites date in some cases from the Neolithic period and include barrows , ruined abbeys, castles , moated sites, churchyard crosses and Iron Age hill forts . [ 2 ]
The Cathedral Church of Saint Martin, Leicester, [2] commonly known as Leicester Cathedral, [3] is a Church of England cathedral in Leicester, England and the seat of the Bishop of Leicester. [4] The church was elevated to a collegiate church in 1922 and made a cathedral in 1927 following the establishment of a new Diocese of Leicester in 1926.