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Lubenham

Lubenham is a village and civil parish approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Market Harborough, in the Harborough district in the south of Leicestershire, England.

Lubenham
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The place

Lubenham is a village and civil parish approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Market Harborough, in the Harborough district in the south of Leicestershire, England. At the 2021 Census, the parish had a population of 860. The first National Hunt Chase Challenge Cup was held in Lubenham, in the grounds of what is now Thorpe Lubenham Hall. Lubenham parish extends north to Gartree and west to Bramfield Park. The village appears in four entries in the Domesday Book of 1086.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Lubenham

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
    Foxton Locks

    Foxton Locks are ten canal locks consisting of two "staircases" each of five locks, located on the Leicester line of the Grand Union Canal about 3 miles west of the Leicestershire town of Market Harborough. They are named after the nearby village of Foxton.

    2.6 km · canal locks in Foxton, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    3 km · church in Harborough, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    2.9 km · Grade I listed church in East Farndon, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Nicholas

    St Nicholas's Church is an Anglican church and the parish church of Marston Trussell in Northamptonshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building and stands on the south side of Lubenham Road at the eastern edge of the village.

    1.8 km · Grade I listed church in Marston Trussell, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    300 m · grade II listed building in Lubenham, Harborough, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    3.6 km · association football academy in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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.

    3 km · museum in Leicestershire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    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.

    3.7 km · church in Harborough, Leicestershire, England,UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    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.

    2.9 km · building in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England, UK · 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.

Go there

Getting to Lubenham

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 46 km · Birmingham (BHX), 53 km · London Luton (LTN), 79 km
Stations
Market Harborough railway station, 3.8 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Lubenham
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £7–10
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Lubenham
    63 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · £7–9
  • Luton, Luton → Lubenham
    76 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £8–10
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Lubenham

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 Lubenham. 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

    293 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    408 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    439 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    474 km

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Around it

Next door to Lubenham

Lubenham is 21 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Market Harboroughtown in Leicestershire, England, UK3 km
  • East Farndonvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom2.2 km
  • Marston Trussellvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom2.4 km
  • Gumleyvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, UK3.6 km
  • Theddingworthvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, UK4 km
  • Foxtonvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, England2.7 km