Charnwood was an electoral ward and administrative division of the city of Leicester, England.

[1] It comprised the northern Leicester suburb of Northfields and its Tailby and Morton ex-council estates.

The scheme improved areas such as security fencing, lighting and public recreational spaces.

[citation needed] Charnwood was bounded by the wards of Belgrave to the west and Rushey Mead to the north-west on the other side of the Midland Main Line, Humberstone & Hamilton to the east on the other side of Victoria Road East, Coleman to the south-east at The Portway and North Evington to the south at Hastings Road.

The field was enclosed in 1764 and then used as residential building land 'in good time for the population increase' of the industrial revolution, meaning that Leicester was largely spared the overcrowding problems typical of industrialising towns of that time.