West Knighton is an area bounded by Knighton Fields Road East to the North, Welford Road to the East, the London-bound railway line to the West and Leicester City boundary to the South (a line just South of Asquith Way) in Leicestershire

Leicestershire

Leicestershire is a landlocked county in the English Midlands. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the City of Leicester unitary authority is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire...

. It was mostly constructed during the 1950s and contains a variety of semi-detached and detached housing, council allotments and two secondary schools (Lancaster School and Sir Jonathan North Community College). It is part of Knighton ward and of Leicester South constituency.