 The oldest of the post-war developments is Wigston Fields north of Wigston towards Knighton and Leicester; the Meadows and Little Hill estates were developed in the 1970s and 1980s to the east and south of Wigston's old centre.Wigston Harcourt is an area of housing developed up until the early 1990s between the Little Hill and Meadows estates.These three estates mark the boundary of the greater Leicester urban area, beyond which lies agricultural land.