Course of The River
The Soar passes:
- through Croft, Leicestershire
- west of Aylestone
- west of Leicester City Centre and east of Leicester's West End
- east of Woodgate
- west of Belgrave
- east of Birstall and west of Thurmaston
- it is joined by the River Wreake
- west of Sileby and east of Mountsorrel
- east of Quorn and west of Barrow-on-Soar
- east of Loughborough (a canalised short-cut runs through the town), passing through Cotes
- west of Stanford on Soar, downstream from which the river forms the Nottinghamshire/Leicestershire county boundary
- west of Normanton on Soar and then past Zouch
- west of Sutton Bonington
- east of Kegworth
- west of Kingston on Soar, where the Kingston Brook enters
- west of Ratcliffe on Soar
- joining the River Trent near the Trent Locks
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