Great Bowden
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,540 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Leicestershire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Bowden” and “Great Bowden, Leicestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Peter and St Paul and Market Harborough railway station.
Market Harborough railway station
Railway station
Photo: Psythor, Public domain.
Market Harborough railway station serves the town of Market Harborough, in Leicestershire, England. It is situated to the east of the town centre and lies on the Midland Main Line, 16 miles south-east of Leicester. The building is Grade II listed.
Harborough Museum
Museum
Photo: Alan Murray-Rust, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Little Bowden and Market Harborough.
Little Bowden
Village
Photo: Richard Dear, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Market Harborough
Photo: G-Man, Public domain.
Market Harborough is a market town of 25,000 people on the River Welland in Leicestershire, England.
Great Bowden
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Great Bowden, Harborough District, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.49299° or 52° 29′ 35″ northLongitude
-0.90393° or 0° 54′ 14″ westPopulation
1,540Elevation
276 feet (84 metres)Open location code
9C4XF3VW+5COpenStreetMap ID
node 27303722OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2648153Wikidata ID
Q935502
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Great Bowden” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Great Bowden”
- Dutch: “Great Bowden”
- French: “Great Bowden”
- Irish: “Great Bowden”
- Ladin: “Great Bowden”
- Polish: “Great Bowden”
- Swedish: “Great Bowden”
- Welsh: “Great Bowden”
- “Great Bowden”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include The Green and Great Bowden Village Hall.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Great Bowden”. Photo: the bitterman, CC BY-SA 2.0.