Wedding Photographer Leicester — the Golden Mile, Victoria Park and the Leicestershire Countryside
Leicester is England’s most culturally diverse city and one of its oldest continuously inhabited Roman settlements — a city whose Jewry Wall Roman bath house, medieval Guildhall, Richard III discovery site and Victorian Belgrave Golden Mile all sit within walking distance of each other in a compact historic core of genuine depth. For Leicester wedding photography, the city offers a combination of Victorian civic grandeur in its parks and town centre and the rolling Leicestershire countryside of the Vale of Belvoir, the Charnwood Forest and the Soar Valley within twenty minutes of the city centre.
Victoria Park, the New Walk and the Golden Mile
Victoria Park — Leicester’s principal municipal park, south of the city centre on the university boundary — provides a large, open green landscape with specimen trees and a long formal avenue of considerable civic dignity. The New Walk — a pedestrian promenade of 1785 connecting the city centre to Victoria Park through Regency and Victorian villa streetscape — is unique in British cities for its entirely pedestrian character and provides one of the most architecturally consistent portrait streets in any English midlands city. The Golden Mile on Belgrave Road — Leicester’s South Asian commercial district — provides an extraordinarily vivid, colour-saturated streetscape setting for couples from Leicester’s South Asian communities who want portrait photography that reflects the cultural world of their wedding day.
Bradgate Park, the Vale of Belvoir and Rutland Water
Bradgate Park — 830 acres of open Pre-Cambrian deer park north-west of Leicester, with the bracken-covered tors of Sliding Stone providing the most dramatic natural portrait settings within ten miles of the city centre — is the finest easily accessible natural landscape in the East Midlands. The Vale of Belvoir to the north-east provides a traditional English pastoral landscape of thatched ironstone villages and the dramatic skyline of Belvoir Castle on its ridge. Rutland Water, to the east, is the largest man-made reservoir in England and provides a sailing and birdwatching destination of great natural beauty, with the Hambleton Peninsula and the church at Exton nearby for additional portrait sessions extending a Leicester wedding day.