Market Harborough
Market Harborough is a market town of 25,000 people on the River Welland in Leicestershire, England.Photo: G-Man, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 24,800 residents
- Description: town in Leicestershire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Harborough”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Market Harborough railway station and Harborough Museum.
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.
St Dionysius’ Church, Market Harborough
Church
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Little Bowden and Great Oxendon.
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.
Great Oxendon
Village
Great Oxendon is a linear village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire in England. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 307 people, increasing to 331 at the 2011 Census. Great Oxendon is situated 2½ miles south of Market Harborough.
Market Harborough
- Categories: unparished area, market town, and locality
- Location: Harborough District, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.4777° or 52° 28′ 40″ northLongitude
-0.9209° or 0° 55′ 15″ westPopulation
24,800Elevation
266 feet (81 metres)IATA airport code
XQMUnited Nations Location Code
GB MKHOpen location code
9C4XF3HH+3MOpenStreetMap ID
node 25626681OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2643027Wikidata ID
Q783570
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Market Harborough” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Market Harborough”
- Basque: “Market Harborough”
- Bulgarian: “Маркет Харбъро”
- Cebuano: “Market Harborough”
- Chinese: “馬基特哈伯勒”
- Chinese: “马基特哈伯勒”
- Dutch: “Market Harborough”
- French: “Market Harborough”
- Georgian: “მარკეტ ჰარბორო”
- German: “Market Harborough”
- Hebrew: “מרקט הרבורו”
- Irish: “Market Harborough”
- Italian: “Market Harborough”
- Japanese: “ハーボロー”
- Japanese: “マーケット・ハーバラ”
- Ladin: “Market Harborough”
- Latin: “Hauerberga”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Market Harborough”
- Persian: “مارکت هاربورو”
- Polish: “Market Harborough”
- Portuguese: “Market Harborough”
- Romanian: “Market Harborough”
- Russian: “Маркет Харборо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Market Harborough”
- Silesian: “Market Harborough”
- Slovenian: “Market Harborough”
- South Azerbaijani: “مارکت هاربورو”
- Spanish: “Market Harborough”
- Swedish: “Market Harborough”
- Volapük: “Market Harborough”
- Welsh: “Market Harborough”
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