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Places to see in ( Market Harborough - UK )

Places to see in ( Market Harborough - UK )

Market Harborough is a market town within the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. Market Harborough is the administrative headquarters of Harborough District Council. Market Harborough sits on the Northamptonshire-Leicestershire border. Market Harborough was formerly at a crossroads for both road and rail; however the A6 now bypasses the town to the east and the A14 which carries east-west traffic is 6 miles (9.7 km) to the south. The town is served by East Midlands Trains with direct services to Leicester, Nottingham, Sheffield, Derby and St Pancras International. Rail services to Rugby and Peterborough ended in 1966.

Market Harborough is located in an area which was formerly a part of the Rockingham Forest, a royal hunting forest used by the medieval monarchs starting with William I. Rockingham Road takes its name from the forest. The forest's original boundaries stretched from Market Harborough through to Stamford and included the settlements at Corby, Kettering, Desborough, Rothwell, Thrapston and Oundle.

The centre of the town is dominated by the steeple of St. Dionysius Parish Church which rises directly from the street, as there is no church yard. It was constructed in grey stone in 1300 with the church itself a later building of about 1470. Next to the church stands the Old Grammar School, a small timber building dating from 1614. The ground floor is open, creating a covered market area and there is a single room on the first floor. It has become a symbol of the town. The nearby square is largely pedestrianised and surrounded by buildings of varying styles. The upper end of the High Street is wide and contains mostly unspoiled Georgian buildings.

Market Harborough has two villages within its confines: Great Bowden lies over a hill about a mile from the town centre; Little Bowden is less than half a mile from the town centre. The three centres have largely coalesced through ribbon development and infill, although Great Bowden continues to retain a strong village identity.

Market Harborough is in a rural part of south Leicestershire, on the River Welland and close to the Northamptonshire border. The town is about 15 miles (24.1 km) south of Leicester via the A6, 17 miles (27.4 km) north of Northampton via the A508 and 10 miles (16.1 km) north west of Kettering. The town is near the A14 road running from the M1/M6 motorway Catthorpe Interchange to Felixstowe. The M1 is about 11 miles (17.7 km) west via the A4304 road.

Three miles north west of the town is Foxton Locks – ten canal locks consisting of two staircases each of five locks, on the Leicester line of the Grand Union Canal. It is named after the nearby village of Foxton where there is one of a very few remaining road swing bridges over the canal.

Market Harborough station is on the Midland Main Line and operated by East Midlands Trains. London St Pancras International is 70 minutes south. Northbound trains operate to Leicester (15 minutes), Nottingham, Sheffield, Leeds and York. Leicester connections east and west. From November 2007 St Pancras has Eurostar services to the continent.

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Roman Remains in Leicester

As building developments continued along Great Central Street and Vaughan Way in the city center a team of archaeologists from The University Of Leicester discovered several roman buildings and the biggest preserved mosaic found in the city for 30 years.
Also found among the ruins of the site thought to be over 1,500 years old where pots, cooking utensils, brooches and a rare sunken room thought to be a possible shrine.
My video shows a number of details at the site as it was opened up to a public eager to view the ruins of the cities roman past.
For further information on the dig please visit the ULAS website.

Melton Mowbray

Great Northern Railway and London & North Western Railway Joint Line from Market Harborough to Bottesford and Saxondale via Melton Mowbray.
The Leicestershire market town of Melton Mowbray had the benefit of rail connections from a reasonably early date. By 1848 the town was connected to Syston in the West (1846), and Stamford in the East in (1848). The London & North Western had reached Stamford from Peterborough in 1846.

Museums + Heritage Awards 2017 - the Ceremony

Take a look at the video from the 2017 Museums + Heritage Awards and see who walked away with the ultimate sector prize.

Now celebrating its 15th year, the annual Awards recognise the innovators and leaders of the UK and international museums, galleries and visitor attractions.

A total of 11 awards were up for grabs with plenty of excitement on social media leading up to the event epitomised by Cresswell Crags Museum, which were shortlisted for the Marketing Award for their Christmas 2016 campaign, which involved their cheeky looking “cave elf” Craggy Elf appearing on promotional material all for a budget of £40.

Bernard Donoghue, M+H Awards judge and Director of Alva set the tone for the evening with and introductory speech on behalf of the judges by saying how inspirational all the shortlistees were and that true to the Craggy Elf campaign “creativity doesn’t have to come with a big price tag.”

Among the night’s big winners were National Museums Scotland who picked up the Permanent Exhibition award for their ten new galleries and the National Trust, which was the recipient of the Special Recognition award bestowed by the judges on individuals or groups for exemplary contributions.

Dame Helen Ghosh, Director General of the National Trust who picked up the award said: “The fact that we as an organisation are able to reach out and touch so many people is because of all of you [our members] and what you do on a day to day basis. We are enormously lucky for that support and to be able to spend more than we ever have been able to on conservation and those kind of experiences, that move, teach and inspire.”

To see all the winners from 2017 and to find out more information on entering the 2018 Awards visit the Museums and Heritage Awards website -