New Street shows us fine Georgian houses which now form Leicester's 'legal area'.

- Look closer and you'll see six different types of rocks around you:

- The red kerbstones are Mountsorrel Granite (or Granodiorite)

- The grey kerbstones outside numbers 11 and 13 are fine grained Grey Sandstone, possibly from Swithland

- No 5 has pink Scottish Granite, grey Cornish Granite and yellow Millstone Grit

Three types of rock on one building!

The Communication Workers Union has a pink Sandstone base, and Ketton Limestone above this with fossils of shells in the windowsills

The entire block of houses on your left along New Street is on the site of the large and prosperous Grey Friars Priory, an important medieval religious complex.

Two types of kerbstone rock

Rumour has it that Richard III was buried there after his death at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. It is also rumoured that his body was later dug up and thrown into the River Soar at the West Bridge.