The Belmont Hotel Leicester, Leicestershire - Hotel in the Heart of the City

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When first built they sat in green fields alongside the famous New Walk, originally the Roman  road connecting Ratae (Leicester) with Colchester, which the Town Council, in its wisdom, declared a pedestrian thoroughfare in 1785,  believed to be the first of its kind in Englan</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="justify"> <font size="1" face="Arial" color="#869250">Belmont House, on De Montfort St was built as a girls school, but was used for a number of other purposes until Rachel Bowie, the wife of a successful Scottish mining engineer, bought it in 1934.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="justify"> <font size="1" face="Arial" color="#869250">Since then it has been run as a hotel by succeeding generations of the Bowie’s, growing from 8 rooms to nearly 80, and starting as a B and B, to now being highly rated by the AA.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="justify"> <font size="1" face="Arial" color="#869250">New Walk is a delightful route to stroll into the Shopping centre and the Open Air Market which is one of the largest permanent open air markets in Europe and has been in the centre of Leicester for a thousand years. St Stevens, the church opposite the hotel, has an interesting history having been moved there brick by brick in the 1890’s from a site next to the station. Further down New Walk is the Leicester Museum, built by Joseph Hansom in 1834 ( and responsible for firing the imagination of a young David Attenborough).</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="justify"> <font size="1" face="Arial" color="#869250">Belmont house and Belmont Villas, as the houses leading up New Walk were known would have been quite ‘posh’ houses in Victorian Leicester and indeed there is a Blue Plaque on the hotel celebrating Earnest Gimson,  who lived here in the 1870’s and was visited by his mentor William Morris on a number of occaison</font></td> </tr> </table> </body>