Ceremonial county

Leicestershire

Leicestershire is a ceremonial county made up of 8 local authorities. Its boundary comes from Ordnance Survey's 2015 edition of Boundary-Line, and each local authority counts as a member of the county holding most of its area. It has no official code.

Its local authorities today. Select one to open its page.

Local authorities

Former members

Wards

161 wards, by local authority.

Blaby 17

Charnwood 24

Harborough 19

Hinckley and Bosworth 16

Leicester 21

Melton 16

North West Leicestershire 38

Oadby and Wigston 10

Ask the API

The API holds Leicestershire as a named location, with each member dated, so you can add up data over it or list the areas inside it.

  • The place and its definitionDocs
    GET/v1/locations/leicestershire
  • Its member councilsDocs
    GET/v1/locations/leicestershire/members