Leicestershire, Leicester

a largely agricultural county in central England

• county — a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government

• Bosworth Field — the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (1485); Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned as Henry VII
• Leicester — an industrial city on the River Soar in Leicestershire in central England; built on the site of a Roman settlement

• England — a division of the United Kingdom