Laughton
Laughton is a small village and parish situated in Leicestershire, approximately 5 miles west of Market Harborough. Old buildings dominate Laughton with currently only two modern buildings situated in the village.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 94 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Leicestershire, UK
- Also known as: “Laughton, Leicestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saddington Reservoir and Church of St Nicholas.
Saddington Reservoir
Reservoir
Photo: Richard Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Saddington Reservoir is a canal reservoir and 19.1 hectares biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Saddington in Leicestershire. The reservoir was built between 1793 and 1797 to supply water to the Grand Union Canal.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fleckney and Kibworth Beauchamp.
Fleckney
Village
Photo: Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fleckney is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. It is situated 2.5 miles west of the A6 national route between Market Harborough and Leicester. Fleckney is situated 3 miles north of Laughton.
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 3 miles northeast of Laughton.
Laughton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Harborough District, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.496° or 52° 29′ 46″ northLongitude
-1.0279° or 1° 1′ 40″ westPopulation
94Elevation
538 feet (164 metres)Open location code
9C4WFXWC+CVOpenStreetMap ID
node 27041522OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
7296330Wikidata ID
Q2856537
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Laughton” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Laughton (parokya sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Leicestershire)”
- Cebuano: “Laughton”
- Dutch: “Laughton”
- French: “Laughton”
- Irish: “Laughton”
- Ladin: “Laughton (Leicestershire)”
- Ladin: “Laughton”
- Persian: “لاتون، لسترشر”
- Polish: “Laughton”
- Swedish: “Laughton (parish i Storbritannien, Leicestershire)”
- Swedish: “Laughton, Leicestershire”
- Welsh: “Laughton, Swydd Gaerlŷr”
- “Laughton”
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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 “Laughton”. Photo: Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0.