National Trust & English Heritage places in Leicestershire

Rare Commonwealth-era church built in 1653 in defiance of Cromwell, with its original interior intact.

Arts and Crafts cottage in Charnwood Forest by Ernest Gimson, growing from the rocks in century-old woodland.

Woodland, heath and marsh reserve in Charnwood Forest, owned partly by the National Trust and managed by the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust; members enter on their card, others need a free permit.

Jewry Wall is a surviving section of a Roman public bath house, built around AD 160 in the town that became Leicester.

The moated, never-finished brick mansion of Lord Hastings, begun in 1480 and now opened by English Heritage for guided tours on selected dates.

Lyddington Bede House was once part of a palace belonging to the Bishops of Lincoln, built beside the parish church in an ironstone village.