It lies on the A6 and is a last major cash settlement prior to Leicester whilst running from either the N. A village centre lies upright off a A6, along Sibson Road. There is the supermarket, a garden centre & various more shops. There are various schools, including Riverside Primary School, Stonehill High, & Longslade Community College.

There is a big housing estate to the N-West of the village, towards Beaumont Leys known unofficially as a Gates estate because numerous of the itinerant list prevent in the word 'gate'.

A Grand Union Canal runs through the bottom end of the village, separating it from either Watermead Park, a series of streams, lakes, and wells throughout in the bottom of the Soar Valley, which have been placed aside as a amateur front yard & country park.

A Great Central Railway steam railway has its southern terminus near a village, in which a A6 meets a Leicester outer ringroad at Red Hill Circle. A railway as well forms a boundary of the southern prevent of Birstall Golf Club.

Northward of a village, a A6 meets the A46 Leicester Western Bypass and then continues on towards Loughborough along the Soar Valley, and so in northerly of England.

Birstall is twinned sustaining Rixensart, Belgium.

History
A title Birstall comes from either a Old English for "old disused fort" - Burhsteall. Saxon remnants have been witnessed in the village & encompassing locality. A village was known as Burstalle in the Domesday Book. a village was a little 1 until the arrival of the Great Central Railway in 1899. From either so forward development has continued & however continues to-day. Between 1901 & a 2001 a people grew from either 611 to above 11,000.

Places/buildings within the village
Schools: Highcliffe primary school Riverside primary school Stonehill high school Longslade community college

Shops: One independent supermarket One garden centre Various shops along Sibson road

Parks: Watermead country park Recreational park

Golf game club: Birstall Golf Club - founded within 1901

Current construction projects
There exists presently 1 major even construction task, or development within progress. Upright next to the A6 (Loughborough road), houses are existence constructed. More changes due to this housing development come likewise ingesting place, including roadworks on the A6 road & works heading through the Stonehill & Longslade schools. Now a development is referred to as Hallam Fields. The school is as well planned for the development.

Neighbouring villages
a nearest village to Birstall is Wanlip, a little village, using a village of Rothley existence the next nighest. A village of Syston is as well nearby. Loughborough, a big town, is farther away.