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Little Bowden

Little Bowden is an area on the edge of Market Harborough in the Harborough district, in the county of Leicestershire, England.

Little Bowden
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The place

Little Bowden is an area on the edge of Market Harborough in the Harborough district, in the county of Leicestershire, England. As a village it was formerly part of Northamptonshire. The River Jordan runs through part of the area.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Little Bowden

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.

  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.

    800 m · church in Harborough, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church 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.

    3.2 km · Grade I listed church in East Farndon, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church 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 km · church in Great Oxendon, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    The 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.

    3.5 km · grade II listed building in Lubenham, Harborough, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    1.2 km · association football academy in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    800 m · museum in Leicestershire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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.

    600 m · church in Harborough, Leicestershire, England,UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    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.

    900 m · building in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    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.

    2.9 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Little Bowden

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 49 km · Birmingham (BHX), 57 km · London Luton (LTN), 76 km
Stations
Market Harborough railway station, 600 m
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Little Bowden
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £6–9
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Little Bowden
    67 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £8–10
  • Luton, Luton → Little Bowden
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £9–11
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Little 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 Little 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

    201 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    296 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    405 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    442 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    477 km

If you know how people move in Little Bowden – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Little Bowden

Little Bowden is 24 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Market Harboroughtown in Leicestershire, England, UK700 m
  • East Farndonvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom2.9 km
  • Great Oxendonvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom3.6 km
  • Braybrookevillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom3.6 km
  • Dingleyvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom3.1 km
  • Lubenhamvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, United Kingdom3.7 km