Foxton
Foxton is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district, in the county of Leicestershire, England, to the north-west of Market Harborough. The village is on the Grand Union Canal and is a short walk to the site of the Foxton Locks and Foxton Inclined Plane.- Type: Village with 478 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Leicestershire, England
- Also known as: “Foxton, Leicestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Helen and Church of All Saints.
Church of All Saints
Church
Photo: Andrew Tatlow, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of All Saints is situated 2 miles south of Foxton.
Christ Church
Church
Photo: Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Christ Church is situated 2 miles northwest of Foxton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kibworth Beauchamp and Market Harborough.
Kibworth Beauchamp
Village
Photo: Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kibworth is an area of the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England, that contains two civil parishes: the villages of Kibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourt. Kibworth Beauchamp is situated 2½ miles northwest of Foxton.
Market Harborough
Photo: G-Man, Public domain.
Market Harborough is a market town of 25,000 people on the River Welland in Leicestershire, England.
Foxton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Foxton, Harborough District, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.50353° or 52° 30′ 13″ northLongitude
-0.9678° or 0° 58′ 4″ westPopulation
478Elevation
325 feet (99 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB FXFOpen location code
9C4XG23J+CVOpenStreetMap ID
node 27188935OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Foxton” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Foxton”
- Dutch: “Foxton, Leicestershire”
- French: “Foxton”
- Irish: “Foxton”
- Japanese: “フォクストン”
- Japanese: “フォックストン”
- Ladin: “Foxton”
- Polish: “Foxton (Leicestershire)”
- Polish: “Foxton”
- Swedish: “Foxton, Leicestershire”
- Swedish: “Foxton”
- Welsh: “Foxton, Swydd Gaerlŷr”
- “Foxton”
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