Location Map

Please click on this PDF map link showing location of the Record Office, car parks and directions from the motorway :- Map to Record Office (.pdf)
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The Record Office has a small car park that is a further hundred yards down Long Street on the right,opposite Paddock Street. The car park is free for Record Office visitors. There are several public car parks in Wigston Magna should this be full. Please see the above .pdf map for location of car parks.

From Leicester: Follow the A5199, Welford Road, southwards to the roundabout at the junction with the B582. Take the third exit on to Wakes Road and at the junction with Leicester Road turn left. Continue straight on at the mini-roundabout into Long Street. The Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland is on the right. The Record Office car park is 100 yards further on, on the right.

From the M1/M69: Leave the motorway at M1 Junction 21 and follow signs for Leicester South and East and Wigston (A563). At the large roundabout at the end of Glenhills Way take the fourth exit into Stonesby Avenue (B5418) which leads into Aylestone Lane. At the mini-roundabout at the T-junction turn right into Long Street. The Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland is on the right with a car park a further hundred yards on the right.

Buses to Wigston Magna run from St. Margaret's bus station in Leicester via London Road railway station (service 48 stops by the Thomas Cook statue) or via Welford Road (service 49).  Ask for "Church Nook"; cross the main road and walk down Bell Street to Long Street.  For the return journey services 47 and 49 stop outside the Record Office.
If travelling by train from Birmingham, there is a small station at South Wigston (approximately 1½ miles from the Record Office).  Services 45 & 47 run from South Wigston to the bus stop outside the Record Office.