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Leicestershire

The best comprehensive school for A-levels in the county was the De Lisle College in Loughborough. The two private single-sex schools in Loughborough, Loughborough Grammar School and Loughborough High School were the best schools overall at A-level. Located at its centre and administered separately from the rest of the count, Leicestershire takes its name from the city of Leicester (unitary authority).

Forms part of the new National Forest area extending into Derbyshire and Staffordshire, around Coalville, is a large part of the north-west of the county. Since the Domesday Survey, Leicestershire's external boundaries have changed. Has been exchanged for the Netherseal area is the Measham-Donisthorpe exclave of Derbyshire and has caused Little Bowden, previously in Northamptonshire to be annexed, is the urban expansion of Market Harborough.

An area of 2,084 km2 (804 sq mi), the county covers. Followed by the town of Loughborough, its largest population centre is the city of Leicester. Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Coalville, Hinckley, Market Harborough, Melton Mowbray, Oadby, Wigston and Lutterworth, are other large towns. There is only one upper school in either district giving no choice of school, for Melton and Blaby districts, although there is division by middle and upper schools.

Long Clawson and the Leicestershire Handmade Cheese Company, two dairies produce Red Leicester cheese in the county. Known as the father of fox hunting who lived in Quorn is Hugo Meynell.

The seat of Leicestershire County Council and the centre of operations of the county authority, some 3 miles (4.8 km) north-west of central Leicester and a little over 4 miles (6.4 km) from Leicester railway station is County Hall in Glenfield. There are seven district councils, Blaby, Charnwood, Harborough, Hinckley and Bosworth, Melton, North West Leicestershire and Oadby and Wigston below the County Council. Have their head offices in Leicestershire are the British Psychological Society, the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) located in Wigston, and the National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH).

In the 1890s, in the Vulcan factory owned by Josiah Gimson, whose son Ernest Gimson was an influential furniture designer and architect of the English arts and crafts movement, Abbey Pumping Station houses four enormous steam powered beam engines built in Leicester. Bardon Hill at 278 metres (912 ft), is the highest point of the county, which is also a Marilyn; with other hilly/upland areas of c. 150-200 metres (490-660 ft) and above in nearby Charnwood Forest and also to the east of the county around Launde Abbey.