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Highcross Leicester is a shopping centre in Leicester, England. It was opened as The Shires in 1991 to supplement the Haymarket Shopping Centre , also since re-developed. It was built on a central location within the city centre on Eastgates and High Street.
High Cross is the name given to the crossroads of the Roman roads of Watling Street (now the A5) and Fosse Way on the border between Leicestershire and Warwickshire, England.A naturally strategic high point, High Cross was "the central cross roads" of Anglo-Saxon and Roman Britain. [1]
All Saints' Church is a redundant Anglican church in High Cross Street, Leicester, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building , [ 1 ] and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust .
The notice covers the areas within Vaughan Way, St Margaret’s Way, Tigers Way, Oxford Street, Bath Lane and Highcross Street. Follow BBC Leicester on Facebook , on X , or on Instagram .
The city centre was the High Cross, at the junction of the current High Street and Highcross Street (in mediaeval times, High Street ran between the north and south gates along the line of the current Highcross Street, while the current High Street was called Swinesmarket). Leicester Cathedral [2] and the Guildhall occupy this old area of town.
The road joined Akeman Street and Ermin Way at Cirencester, crossed Watling Street at Venonis south of Leicester, and joined Ermine Street at Lincoln.. The Antonine Itinerary (a 2nd-century Roman register of roads) includes the section between High Cross and Lincoln, and lists intermediate points at Verometo (Willoughby on the Wolds), Margiduno (Castle Hill near Bingham), Ad Pontem and ...
1773 – The High Cross in High Street was removed. [46] 1785 – The Greencoat School was established with money left by Alderman Gabriel Newton. [85] 1792 – Leicester Chronicle newspaper began publication. [99] 1794 – The corporation sanctioned several fairs. [23]
The main Leicester Shopmobility offices are located within the station at the Belgrave Gate entrance. [4] a smaller office is located within Highcross Leicester. The bus station also has public toilets which have been recently refurbished alongside changing places accessible facilities. [5] [6]