England
Things you probably didn't know about Leicester
Roman ruins, Walkers crisps and a king found under a car park.
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2012 — fact 1 of 5
Richard III was found in a car park
In 2012, archaeologists dug up the last Plantagenet king beneath a Leicester car park, 527 years after Bosworth.
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1948 — fact 2 of 5
Walkers Crisps started here
Henry Walker’s butcher business turned to crisps in 1948 — today millions of bags are made in the city daily.
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125 — fact 3 of 5
2000 years of Roman ruins
Leicester’s Jewry Wall is one of the largest surviving Roman civilian structures in Britain.
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1960 — fact 4 of 5
Gary Lineker was born here
The Leicester-born striker — now crisp advertising’s favourite face — grew up supporting the Foxes.
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2001 — fact 5 of 5
A National Space Centre in the Midlands
Leicester’s space research produced the mission behind the Beagle 2 Mars lander, and the city built a museum to match.
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Our Leicester collection is part of a growing local-history library — more cities and facts are being added.