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Great Bowden

Great Bowden is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England.

The place

Great Bowden is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. It is north-east of and a suburb of Market Harborough, although originally the parish of Great Bowden included Harborough. The population is around 1,000, being measured at the 2011 census as 1,017. Places nearby include Market Harborough, Little Bowden, Sutton Bassett, Foxton and Thorpe Langton.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Great Bowden

7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Church of St Dionysius

    St Dionysius' Church, Market Harborough is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Market Harborough, Leicestershire.

    1.9 km · church in Harborough, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Brooke House Football Football Academy

    The Brooke House College Football Academy is an association football academy in Market Harborough. Harborough Town Football Club is used for training and home matches, whilst Northampton House is home to the manager’s office and college’s fitness centre.

    3.1 km · association football academy in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Harborough Museum

    Harborough Museum was opened in 1983 in the former R & W H Symington corset factory that also houses the Harborough District Council offices in the historic market town of Market Harborough. It is run by a partnership between Leicestershire County Council, Harborough District Council and Market Harborough Historical Society.

    1.9 km · museum in Leicestershire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Mary in Arden Church

    St Mary in Arden Church is a ruined church on Bowden Road in Market Harborough, England. Although it was established before the 13th century, the Grade II listed remains are part of the later 17th-century church built on the same site.

    1.4 km · church in Harborough, Leicestershire, England,UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Market Harborough Town Hall

    Market Harborough Town Hall is an historic building in the High Street in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England. The building, which originally contained assembly rooms on the upper floors that have subsequently been converted for commercial use, is a Grade II listed building.

    1.9 km · building in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Great Bowden Borrowpit

    Great Bowden Borrowpit is a 2.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Market Harborough in Leicestershire. This former railway borrow pit has an unusual marsh, dominated by soft rush, tufted hair grass and cottongrass.

    1 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    All Saints Church, Sutton Bassett

    All Saints is the local parish Church of England church for Sutton Bassett, Northamptonshire. It was built as an annexe to St.

    3.1 km · grade II listed church in Sutton Bassett, North Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Great Bowden

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 47 km · Birmingham (BHX), 57 km · London Luton (LTN), 78 km
Stations
Market Harborough railway station, 1.4 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Great Bowden
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £6–8
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Great Bowden
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £8–10
  • Luton, Luton → Great Bowden
    76 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Great Bowden

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Great Bowden. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    202 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    297 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    404 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    440 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    476 km

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Around it

Next door to Great Bowden

Great Bowden is 22 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.