A town is directly to the west of Leicester & is good remove junction 21A of the M1 motorway. These are a places of Glenfield Hospital, the headquarters of Leicestershire County Council, and of Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service.

A majority of a village was built in the 1920s-50s, whilst the Faire Estate was built. In the 80s & 90s an additional big estate was build upon previous domestic land behind Ellis Park.

In Station Road there is a big Co-Cooperative superstore by using petrol station, Glenfield Televisions, Glenfield Kitchens, Numark Chemists & two or three more little shops. There are besides shops in a Square, Stamford Street & Faire Road.

A heart of a community is in the area of the Square, by owning St Peter's Church (CofE), a church htons & a post professional in Church Street, a Methodist Church & Hall & a public library (offering generous Internet access) merely in Station Road, & Park Home (parish council), a Memorial Hall, Scout Hut, Playground, Glenfield Primary School & a nursary school all placed good within Stamford Street.

Stamford Street was a residence of painter Brian Organ. Salcombe Cause was a residence of the savant Graham Barnfield.

There are the kind of taphouse, require-aways, eating house & hotels in the Glenfield locality. In A village centre, The Nag's Head serves pothouse food & Indian meals, by having other traditional feeding to become encountered in a Forge (once the Gryphon). the Railway Inn (close to the places of the previous Glenfield Station)is as well a popular taphouse. There are Chinese & fish & chip takeaways in the village. In Dominion Road, there exists A Dominion Pub, by having Fish & Fry & Trodo's Taverna (Greek) directly opposite. Touching County Hall is The Gynsills, the big pothouse & hotel. Running retired towards Groby is The Brent, the traditional English Hotel & pothouse serving food.

Glenfield has its have village newspaper, A Glenfield Gazette, & a parish council have many areas of unpaid land, including Ellis Park, Station Park and a Swimming Fields. Touching to the Brant goose is the "Millennium Green", which is managed by the local trust.

Glenfield is exclusively Threesome miles out of Leicester, and Unity 1/2 miles from either a Beaumont Leys Concidering Centre. A M1 can be easily accessed at Junction 21a in the south of the village (Southbound exclusively), which makes Fosse Park accessible. A M1 Northerly may be reached within minutes along a A50 towards Markfield, Groby and Coalville.

A A46 leads around a northward of Leicester, by using access to Anstey and then the A6 to Loughborough.

Glenfield wwhen a places of the 1st station from either Leicester West Bridge on the Leicester & Swannington Railway opened around July 1832 as the world's third steam railway. Good prior to reaching a station a line passed across Glenfield Burrow, which at Unity mile 36 yards yearn was at a instance the world's hanker railway burrow & was built by Robert Stephenson; a burrow may however exist as seen.