Soar Valley

The valley is home to a section of the M1 motorway, a large section of the Great Central Railway, a lengthy stretch of the Grand Union Canal, the Leicester City Ground, Abbey Park, the Abbey Pumping Station, and the National Space Centre.

Soar Valley is also the name of an electoral ward of Rushcliffe Borough Council in south Nottinghamshire.

The valley begins around the area where the Soar meets the River Sence near Enderby and Whetstone through the villages of Narborough, Blaby, and Glen Parva south of Leicester.

In Leicester city the valley passes through the settlements of Braunstone, Aylestone, and the floodplains of Aylestone Meadows, past Westcotes, Bede Island and Frog Island skirting Leicester City Centre to the west, on through the villages of Quorn, Mountsorrel, Barrow upon Soar, Birstall, Rothley and Sileby and a number of smaller communities all on or near the River Soar as it flows from Leicester to Loughborough in Leicestershire.

The most recent election was in 2009 when Linda Sykes, of the Conservative party, won the seat.