Harborough District
Harborough is a local government district in Leicestershire, England.
Harborough is a local government district in Leicestershire, England. It is named after its main town, Market Harborough, which is where the council is based. The district also includes the town of Lutterworth and numerous villages and surrounding rural areas. In the north of the district it includes parts of the Leicester Urban Area, notably at Thurnby, Bushby and Scraptoft. Covering 230 square miles (600 km2), the district is the largest by area of the eight districts in Leicestershire and covers almost a quarter of the county.
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Worth seeing in and around Harborough District
9 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.
100 m · church in Harborough, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of St John the Baptist
St John the Baptist's Church is an Anglican church, the parish church of East Farndon, Northamptonshire. It is a Grade I listed building and stands in the centre of the village of East Farndon.
3.1 km · Grade I listed church in East Farndon, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of St Helen
St Helen's Church is an Anglican Church and the parish church of Oxendon. It is a Grade II* listed building and stands on the west side of Harborough Road, to the north of the village of Great Oxendon.
3.3 km · church in Great Oxendon, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04The Tower House, Lubenham
The Tower House, formerly known as The Cottage or Lubenham Cottage is a Grade II listed Georgian house in Lubenham, Leicestershire, England. It is situated to the north of the churchyard on Rushes Lane.
2.9 km · grade II listed building in Lubenham, Harborough, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Brooke 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.
1.5 km · association football academy in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England · Wikipedia - 06Harborough 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.
0 m · museum in Leicestershire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07St 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.
700 m · church in Harborough, Leicestershire, England,UK · Wikipedia - 08Market 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.
200 m · building in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Great 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.
2.7 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Harborough District
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 48 km · Birmingham (BHX), 56 km · London Luton (LTN), 77 km
- Stations
- Market Harborough railway station, 800 m
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Harborough District55 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £6–8
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Harborough District48 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · £5–7
- Luton, Luton → Harborough District83 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £8–11
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Harborough District
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 Harborough District. 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 Harborough District – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Harborough District
Harborough District is 23 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- East Farndonvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom2.6 km
- Great Oxendonvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom3.9 km
- Dingleyvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom3.8 km
- Lubenhamvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, United Kingdom3 km
- Great Bowdenvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, United Kingdom1.9 km
- Little Bowdenvillage in Leicestershire, England, UK800 m