AREA GUIDE
Leicester
Leicester is the small city with a big personality. With 2 city-centre universities, Leicester is a fantastic place for young people from all over the country and the world, to meet, study and have fun!
If you love football, rugby, cricket or basketball, Leicester has a top level team you can support, or if eating out is more your thing, the huge variety of international cuisine on offer in the city is incredible.
From Clarendon Park with its independent coffee shops, restaurants and letting agents like Livingstone, with 20 years' experience of Leicester's student market, to the High Cross shopping centre with its top international brands, and everything in between, Leicester is a vibrant and varied city that you really can call home.
Clarendon Park
This friendly and vibrant area, lying on the southern edge of Leicester's Victoria Park, has long been loved for its mix of small independent shops, coffee shops, bars and restaurants. With accessible bus and cycle routes to the city, as well as its green spaces and village feel, this ever-popular neighbourhood offers a fabulous and friendly city environment for families and students alike.
London Road
Being a main transport route into the heart of the City Centre, London Road has long been an important part of Leicester, linking Oadby, Stoneygate and Clarendon Park to the Railway station. Boasting a broad international mix of restaurants, as well as coffee shops and dessert bars, London Road and its surrounding streets offer good value accommodation close to both the city centre and to the University of Leicester.
City Centre
The historic centre of Leicester offers a great mix of all the usual shops bars and restaurants you would expect to find in any UK city, along with some of the sights and sounds that makes Leicester such a fabulous and unique place to live. From the King Richard III centre and the 2nd century Roman Jewry Wall, to the Castle Gardens and church of St Mary de Castro, which saw the marriage of Geoffrey Chaucer and the knighting of infant King Henry VI, Leicester is steeped in history. A mix of new build and historic flats and apartments in the city centre provide would-be residents with access to everything they need, without the need to travel.
West End
The West End of Leicester, located beside the River Soar is a hugely vibrant and busy part of the city throughout the day and into the night. Narborough Road, a melting-pot of many different cultures was named in 2015 as the most diverse street in the UK. This is the place to live if you want to get a true taste of what makes Leicester the city that it is. With a significant number of student properties due to its proximity to De Montfort University, and also the access that Narborough Road gives to both the city centre and to Fosse Park and M1/M69 motorways, means that the West End is a popular place to live.
