Kirby Muxloe Golf Club

Kirby Muxloe Golf Club is an 18-hole course measuring 6,292 yards, based in the village of Kirby Muxloe on the western edge of Leicester. The village is best known for its moated fifteenth-century castle, built for William, Lord Hastings, and sits in the farmland that runs out from Leicester toward Charnwood Forest and the Leicestershire-Warwickshire border. At 6,292 yards over eighteen holes, the course sits in the mid-range for a full round, long enough to test accuracy off the tee without demanding the sustained length of a championship layout. Kirby Muxloe's position close to Leicester's western suburbs makes the club easily reached from the city centre as well as from the villages further out toward Desford and Ratby. This part of Leicestershire is generally flat to gently undulating, farmland country that has been steadily built into over the past century as Leicester has expanded westward, leaving pockets of open ground like the one the course occupies.