Leicester

Hiking routes around Leicester

16 waymarked hiking routes run within 17 km of Leicester: 4 regional and 12 local.

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Around Leicester

No national or international trail comes within 17 km; the longest-distance routes here are regional. Leicestershire Round has more of its length here than any other route: 79 km within 17 km, of 165 km in all. Of the routes listed here, the longest is Midshires Way, 364 km long. Regional routes account for the largest share: 147 of the 172 km of waymarked route within 17 km. Most of the 12 local routes are short walks: 12 of them are under 10 km.

The routes with most of their length within 17 km

Each name opens the route on Waymarked Trails.

Good to know

  • Routes from Waymarked Trails, which draws the hiking routes mapped on OpenStreetMap (data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); counted on Oct 19, 2026.
  • Only routes someone has mapped as a route on OpenStreetMap are counted. Signposted paths no one has mapped, and walks without waymarks, are not.
  • Lengths within 17 km are measured on Waymarked Trails’ simplified lines and take in a route’s branches and variants; a path two routes share counts for each. A route’s length in all follows its main line along the mapped ways, and those marked “about” come from the simplified lines.

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