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Travelling
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Market
Harborough, A6 north from Kettering, A427 east from Corby
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Leicestershire
& Rutland Features
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Leicestershire
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Market Harborough
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| Market Harborough, a market town with
Georgian buildings and a nice church with a 14th century spire. There is an old grammar
school dating from 1614. |
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Map of Market Harborough |
What
To See -
Market Harborough Tourist Attractions
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Harborough Museum, Council Offices, Adam and Eve Street, LE16 7AG, local
history and history of the town, and its role as a market, social and hunting centre and
stagecoach post, displays include the Symington Collection of Corsetry, reconstruction of
bootmaker's workshop, Tel: 01858 821085
Open: Mon.Sat. 104.30, Sun. 2 5, most Bank Holidays 104.30 not
Good Friday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day |
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Langton
Hall, B6047 off A6 north, at Church Langton. |
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Canal
Museum, Foxton, west off A6 north, on the Grand Union Canal at a set of locks, with
a boat lift which is steam powered, Tel: 0116 2792657 or just walk along the canal ! |
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Kibworth
Harcourt, A6 north, architecture from many periods in one place,the Old House,
1678, 18th century Congressional Church, 19th century Kibworth Hall. Also has a windmill,
last post mill, 18th century,. |
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Out and about, try Kings Norton, off B6047 north which has a Gothic church, or Little Bowden on the towns outskirts, 12 the century church. |
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Days Out in and around Market Harborough
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and Rutland Water, mixing the Rutland
towns with the countryside. |
Towns near Market Harborough To Visit - straight line distance:
Corby Tourist Information (9.30 miles) Kettering Tourist Information (10.05 miles) Uppingham Tourist Information (11.26 miles) Lutterworth Tourist Information (11.95 miles) |
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Information
Centre
Adam & Eve Street
Market Harborough
LE16 7LT
Tel:01858 821 270 |
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Area
Telephone Code
01858 |
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