Great Bowden
Great Bowden is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England.
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.
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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.
- 01Church 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 - 02Brooke 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 - 03Harborough 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 - 04St 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 - 05Market 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 - 06Great 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 - 07All 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 Bowden53 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £6–8
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Great Bowden68 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £8–10
- Luton, Luton → Great Bowden76 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £9–12
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
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If you know how people move in Great Bowden – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Great Bowden
Great Bowden is 22 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Market Harboroughtown in Leicestershire, England, UK2 km
- Sutton Bassettvillage in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom3 km
- East Langtonvillage in Leicestershire, England, UK2.9 km
- Dingleyvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom3 km
- Thorpe Langtonvillage in Leicestershire, England, UK2.8 km
- Little Bowdenvillage in Leicestershire, England, UK1.9 km