LEICESTER | 4K Narrated Walking Tour | Let's Walk 2022

Join me for a walk around the centre of one of England's oldest cities, the modern-day metropolis of Leicester! Located in the East Midlands near the very heart of England, Leicester is a city filled to the brim with history, from the remains of a 1,900 year-old Roman wall to grand medieval halls, the burial site of King Richard III, spectacular 19th-century architecture, and more!
On our walk around Leicester, we pass a number of interesting landmarks, including Leicester Cathedral, Leicester Guildhall, King Richard III Statue, the burial site of King Richard III (car park), King Richard III Visitor Centre, St. Martin's Square, Leicester City Rooms, The Leicester Seamstress, Leicester Town Hall, Every Street, Leicester Boer War Memorial, Leicester Market, Leicester Corn Exchange, Gallowtree Gate, Sporting Success Statue, Leicester Clock Tower, High Street, the Royal Arcade, Silver Street, The Globe Inn, Coronation Buildings, The High Cross, Jubilee Square, St. Nicholas' Church, the Jewry Wall, St. Mary de Castro Church, Castle House, Leicester Castle, the Great Hall, the Turret Gateway, Trinity House, Newarke Houses Museum, De Montfort University Campus, the Magazine Gateway, and a mural dedicated to Leicester City FC.
Thank you so much to the following sites for their help in my research of Leicester.
www.visitleicester.info/
www.storyofleicester.info/
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...
kriii.com/
www.leicestermercury.co.uk/
middletons-shg.co.uk/the-stor...
www.leicestermarket.co.uk/about/
www.leicestermarket.co.uk/out...
www.crosbyheritage.co.uk/locat...
www.britannica.com/event/Batt...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/chri...
leicesterchronicle.co.uk/ever...
www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/aroun...
www.visitoruk.com/Leicester/13...
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leicesterchronicle.co.uk/leic...
www.leicestermercury.co.uk/ne...
ulasnews.com/2015/04/13/secre...
www.jdwetherspoon.com/pub-his...
www.leicester.gov.uk/your-cou...
stnicholasleicester.com/histo...
www.english-heritage.org.uk/v...
www.etymonline.com/word/leice...
www.leicestermercury.co.uk/ne...
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historicengland.org.uk/listin...
www.dmu.ac.uk/campus/venues/g...
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Stats for nerds:
Distance walked: 1.7 miles/2.7km
Step count: 3400 steps (approx.)
Time taken:
Average speed:
Please do not use any footage from this video without my permission.

[@LetsWalkUK]

🎤 To watch with subtitles, please click the ‘CC’ button on your KZbin video player :) Good evening! And welcome to a bumper walk around the heart of one of England’s oldest and largest cities, Leicester - located in the heart of the country. With the best part of 2,000 years of history, there’s an unbelievable amount of things to see on a tour around Leicester, and we just scratch the surface of the city’s many sights on this tour! On our walk around Leicester, we also mention a number of famous names associated with the city, from Richard III to William Wyggeston and Gary Lineker. One famous figure who we didn’t get the chance to mention, however, was a certain Thomas Cook, whose name you may recognise from the modern-day travel industry. A major figure of 19th century Leicester, Thomas Cook began a career in offering trips around Leicestershire and the Midlands to local temperance societies, which laid the foundation for a business that, by the late 1860s, was offering trips and excursions to Europe, and even as far away as North America and the River Nile!

[@binagarten4667]

Its a place where the white people are the minority and the white flight has occurred! Cops too scared to give worshippers of the Mosque a ticket, Perter Soulsby , Councillors and all agencies too scared too wnforce the law to the violent an vocal Crescent and Star brigade. They are hot on Hindu, and SIkhs and even Chritians but cower to the you know who! Ahkbar! You get pockets of Indians and Whites an people who cant move out because they dont have the financial means. too move out. This is what all of England will be like, like Luton, Brum, Bolton,, Prestoen, Oldham, Machester, Telford, Cardiff, Sheffield, Northampton, Coventry,

[@LE31BW]

I was born and raised in Leicester, I worked on the market when i was 15 and have visited all these sites on your tour. My mom works in one of the hosiery factories. I remember when all buses and cars drove in and around the city center, and to this day I still meet people at the Clock Tower when visiting.

[@northernskys]

Have always loved Leicester. The city just oozes History around every corner. Back in the '90's I spent quite a few days exploring the city and it's surrounds. The feet are itching, and the bags are waiting. 2023 seems like a good year to travel Home (Yorkshire born), and do some intense exploring. Especially with your inspiring walks to follow! Cheers from Oz!

[@rogerwood4846]

20 foreign crime gangs.....take a translator for the 94 languages cultural enrichment brings

[@cristianoreddevil9736]

​@@rogerwood4846 Did you forget that you literally enslaved the whole world and genocided Native Americans and Indians?

[@vidiflix]

What a beautiful, informative and sympathetic narrative. I'd love to hear more on your general approach to history and legacy.

[@michellebruce5092]

Awesome live walk in the town today. I enjoyed it looking forward to seeing more soon. Very beautiful and historical the medieval town is. Your history lessons are always great and your walks are always enjoyable have a great day greetings from Canada 😀😀

[@peterphilstacey4698]

its a dreadful place now, no one goes into the centre,segregated, violent hellhole

[@tomasomanachain9194]

A great walk reflecting the fantastic history of Leicester & its heritage. Everyone in Leicester should see this.

[@letitgrow5060]

Great tour. You covered so much history but theres so much more. I love Leicester.

[@mihaiapetrescu]

Very interesting filmed tour, especially for its historic talked background. I visited Leicester just three weeks ago and, surprinsingly, even if I hadn't seen the film before, I walked in the city almost in your steps. I mean I was guided by my "pif", looking around me for interesting places to see, reading the panels I could find every here and there and, well, I saw almost everything it was worth seeing and visiting. Shamefully, I missed the Roman walls near St. Nicholas, which means I have to go back and visit again.

[@krranjeesh]

Great effort! It's hard to miss the hardwork and the high level of research conducted. Hats off!

[@RonRicho]

I have watched numerous videos on Leicester and the Richard III connections. This is unquestionably the best of many excellent ones. I will use it as my guide when we visit Leicester (from the US) in June 2024. Many, many thanks for your excellent work.

[@helentucker6407]

Thanks for the tour! 👌

[@lauraalleguen6685]

Thanks 👍 for the lovely Walk....

[@kylevanbockel1957]

These videos are perfect! I've watched alot of travel videos in my dreaming of travel next year and yours make me feel like I'm.actually there. I love the history you share while walking and the smoothness and professionalism of your narration and video execution! GREAT work! Keep it up.

[@blueXRPdynamite.]

Thanks for educating me on the history of my home city...

[@spencerbaldwin8589]

Thank you for producing the best visual and piece of modern history of my birthplace. I have learned many new things about my city watching this amazing video.

[@bernardgulliford6950]

Very interesting & very enjoyable walk of Leicester.

[@enzoman444]

What a fantastic video. Thank you so much. Bravo

[@Ghostworld_]

This is an amazing video. Usually walkthrough videos don't have talking, and I prefer them that way, but the history you gave was great. The midlands in England are my number one region I would want to visit in England.

[@loubloom8324]

Fantastic video!

[@grzesiekk1599]

Great video. Thank you!

[@beckygair2272]

Excellent

[@jitgo]

Excellent video, I live here and really enjoyed it :) Great work from you, nice clear voice and video with loads of research, well done!

[@bluebell7250]

You are so informative.

[@4KWalkinJapan]

Amazing video. I'm your Fan.

[@badridersofaustralia1870]

Nice Video really learnt something about Leicester the birthplace of my mother

[@reycar4338]

LEICESTER A GREAT CITY LOVE LEICESTER AYE......

[@jayworkstephens3793]

Proud to be from leicester 🦊

[@SimonLloydGuitar]

Don't blame you mate. I was born in London and live in Nottingham,,They're both dumps. Im glad to say Im moving to rural Leicestershire very soon.

[@farukissa642]

Great video. May I point out. Not many people notice that there is a bit of old wall next to the high cross pub which was part of Leicester jail where Daniel Lambert worked. Thanks for this very educational video

[@pennytravers5991]

William Wyggeston is pronounced “Wiggy-stun”, not “Wigston” which is a village outside Leicester. The grammar school was called “The Wyggeston School for Boys (later girls had a separate grammar school) and is still known to us older Leicester residents as “The Wiggy”. Our tour guide is obviously not a local man.

[@starlightsaff]

seamstress is Mary Linwood I believe. There was a school in South Leicester named after her, which was a girls school initially. There was also Linwood boys school, a 5 minute walk away. There is a new school, on the girls site. For many years the boys school became a community centre, until Leicester City Council chose to close it. It is now spaces for new business start ups.

[@blueXRPdynamite.]

Linwood boys my old school, on Linwood lane...

[@MoreThanMistified]

Walkers pork pies were the best always a big queue in the early 50s. 😁

[@TheGaztela]

El día que dejé Leicester, una mañana muy temprano, me encontré a un zorro paseando cerca de la estación de autobuses. Fue mi despedida después de vivir en la ciudad un año. Fue en junio de 1998

[@yourboyayyad3197]

♥️♥️♥️

[@balazsnagy3912]

The whole place looks like an indian bazaar

[@WOLF-ZONE23]

Are you probably doing narrated again if you revisit Newcastle, Liverpool and much more?

[@damianmoodley594]

Leicester is set to become the first city in the UK to have a South Asian majority

[@Chaziltasm]

This makes me want to cry. In 2015 I fell in love with a boy who lived in Leicester. Those were the happiest days of my life, even if It didn't last long. I look back at the places we used to walk, and my heart hurts... yearning for that feeling again. I never loved anyone like I loved him. This city's name now creates an instant feeling of sadness and loss for a love I will never have again.

[@anishsunar3920]

I am here to accept your love@Hejira#2854

[@FourLionsClips]

@@anishsunar3920 hahahahahahaha legend

[@Parallelwurlds]

This is equally romantic and sad. You’ll find it again

[@Jack-cr5jy]

Nah cheese and onion is the best mate

[@lloydielloydie821]

Ahh.. I feel your pain. I like you was in similar situation. There’s something about First loves, they never die. First love, evoke such strong memories of out youth, freedom and Life experiences. Everything you did, was either a first, and you probably experienced it together. You may wed, have children but you will never invest so much time emotionally, in another person as you first true love.. But, you must move on..

[@SimonLloydGuitar]

It's no coincedance that it's almost universally accepted that the most beautiful parts of our cities are invariably the oldest... It's incredible that our country is full of medieval and historically priceless architectural masterpieces...more often than over shadowed by a 1960's block of flats or a car park thanks to modern intellectuals, architects/cultural vandals who seem to despise our culture and heritage.

[@MoreThanMistified]

I still have the ear rings I bought in the market in 1951

[@Dave-wm2xg]

Leicesterastan, heartland of Englanistani 😢😢

[@brigittem2649]

You can see that old Leicester owes it's architecture to the Roman influence. Where would have been Leicester without those Latin Romans. I'm afraid Leicester has been in steady decline after the Romans left. Even the old market place offers pitiful produce. When I lived in Leicester, the market place was vibrant.

[@Great_WesternTVFan]

The city is super diverse now, which is nice

[@clivebaxter6354]

no it's not nice

[@robakles1]

It's 90 % Asian. Didn't see any diversity. I spent few days driving a van around and I could count white people on one hand. Nightmare to park anywhere. Seems like nobody goes to work, it's mad busy even at 11 am on Tuesday. Probably the worst place in uk to drive around after London

[@sempereadem54eadem64]

Rubbish.I have lived her since the 50’s it is now a dump like most cities

[@Great_WesternTVFan]

​@@clivebaxter6354cope

[@Great_WesternTVFan]

​@@sempereadem54eadem64 cope

[@stellalewis9855]

Well, I grew up in Leicester from the 60s it was good , but now it is a mess ,dirty and extremely run down. Sorry I would like to be in another place now

[@sezjames2472]

rough city, chav central. some ok people here and there at least.

[@emotivelyy_]

Where's all the Brits gone?

[@MattDavis_BeechingsGhosts]

When was Leicester first appointed a city?

[@catherineturnell4091]

June 1919

[@MattDavis_BeechingsGhosts]

@@catherineturnell4091 FIRST appointed a city. 1919 was the second time.

[@jizzboxx9984]

It's a dive.

[@unknown_pleasures1948]

It really is

[@daniel69]

Loser talk

[@clivebaxter6354]

More of a slum

[@cyancong1384]

Where's the Leicester University location？

[@clivebaxter6354]

University rd near Vicky park. Demotfort is not really a Uni

[@highgaming1276]

We threw a copper in the fountain at town hall square New Year’s Eve well New Year’s Day about 2 am freezing cold as well poor bastard 😂

[@baldyhead]

Great video. As you say in your pinned comment; you've only scratched the surface of the history of Leicester and their is so much more that you didn't include. Sadly the city is, like many others, a shadow of it's former self, due in large part to internet shopping and not because of the influx of many different nationalities of immigrants, as all the idiotic, xenophobic and racist commenters believe.

[@israaalnaabi9361]

hi

[@emotivelyy_]

Bye

[@Waywind420]

Makes me feel sick the way the native English got ethnically cleansed from their nation like this...and how no one talks about how wrong it is that it's happened and continues to happen.

[@cristianoreddevil9736]

Ethnically cleansed? Take your meds bud 😂

[@sharonconnolly337]

I have born and

[@peterphilstacey4698]

its a hellhole now, it was vibrant, most elderly dare not go into the town centre, beggars, drug addicts and racial tensions, divided, scruffy , provincial nightmare.

[@dorotawaluk3455]

Usirkie👹👹👹

[@brigittem2649]

Leicester has been on a steady decline since the Romans left. My old schools and cinema are now mosques.

[@clivebaxter6354]

Left when the 70th mosque opened

[@emotivelyy_]

Same with London and Birmingham. Disgusting.

[@fortuner123]

Everything was good until you mentioned the idiot Lineker. Leicester Town centre was much more interesting when I was a kid (I'm 72 years now) lots of smaller shops and stalls. Now it is faceless with buildings that provide no interest such as banks, companies etc. I much prefer the old Leicester with all the interest.

[@pennytravers5991]

Well, I watched the video and I still think Leicester is a hideously ugly place, full of dilapidated pavements, shoddy buildings and a completely mental traffic system introduced in the 1960s. Its history is no more interesting than many other cities. I was born in Leicester and will no doubt die in it. But I don’t love it.

[@user-cy6lm3oi7w]

English..a 'mishmash?' Brought to England by 'foreigners?' I disagree, it evolved from languages spoken by our European brothers..therefore a beautiful occurrence

[@SimonLloydGuitar]

100% I can thoroughly recommend two books by Francis Pryor, Britain BC and Britain AD. The MOST comprehensive guides to British history going right back to the ice age. I think there was a Channel 4 Series of the same name(s), so worth searching. Pryor debunks myth after myth such as the 'nation of immigrants' nonsense and 'English language brought about by foreigners' rubbish.

[@cristianoreddevil9736]

​@@SimonLloydGuitarEngland is a nation of immigrants though. Irish, Jews, Hugenots, Afro Carribbean etc.