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Market Harborough 4 &Lutterworth 2 3 Leicestershire Essential Guides 5 Rutland 1 6 8 7 5 Leicestershire Essential Guides 1 Leicester City 2 Ashby de la Zouch & The National Forest 3 Loughborough & Charnwood 4 Melton Mowbray & the Vale of Belvoir 5 Market Harborough & Lutterworth 6 Hinckley & Market Bosworth 7 Blaby 8 Oadby & Wigston Produced for by In partnership with Leicester Shire Promotions is funded by © Leicester Shire Promotions 2005 7-9 Every Street, Town Hall Square, Leicester LE1 6AG www.goleicestershire.com Contents Market Harborough 3 Map of Market Harborough 8 Lutterworth 9 Map of Lutterworth 12 Countryside and Villages 13 Market Harborough Foxton Locks Places to Visit 17 Welcome to Places to Eat & Drink 27 Market Harborough Events 33 &Lutterworth Stay Overnight 35 Market Harborough is one of the country’s finest market towns and is excellent for shopping, with its interesting specialist shops and designer Win a meal at Shearsby Bath! 38 boutiques. Surrounded by scattered hamlets and attractive farming villages, both Market Harborough and nearby Lutterworth lie in tranquil Useful Numbers 41 rolling countryside, close to the meandering Grand Union Canal. Spend some time wandering around the shops in Market Harborough, Area Map 42 and enjoy the atmosphere of this handsome country town. Hire a narrowboat for the day and navigate your way through nearby Foxton Locks, or head out to Hallaton, Medbourne and The Langtons for country strolls and fine pubs. Visit Lutterworth to find out more About this guide about the town’s links with Sir Frank Whittle and the development This publication is one of several guides to of the jet engine, and take a trip to Stanford Hall to see where Percy different parts of Leicestershire. The others Pilcher invented an early flying machine. Admire the stunning views from Rockingham Castle near Market Harborough, or lose yourself in are listed on the back cover and are available Wistow Maze near Great Glen. through local tourist information centres, This guide will give you an insight into what there is to see and do around or by calling 0906 294 1113* Market Harborough and Lutterworth. It provides practical advice to help you plan your visit. We hope you enjoy exploring the area. This guide is available More information can be found at in large print www.goleicestershire.com Call 0906 294 1113* Tourist Information *Calls are charged at 25p per minute and will be answered Harborough District Council, Market Harborough Service Shop, Mon-Fri 9am-9pm and Sat-Sun 9am-6pm Adam and Eve Street, Market Harborough i Lutterworth Service Shop, Market Street, Lutterworth Front cover: Main picture: The Old Grammar School, Market Harborough. Inset picture: Lutterworth Church. 01858 82 82 82 Leicestershire Tourist Information Line: 0906 294 1113* 1 www.goleicestershire.com www.goleicestershire.com 2 Market Harborough Market Harborough Exploring Market Harborough Exploring Market Harborough To the north of this area, the wide and inviting High Street has examples of some fine Georgian architecture, and is also home to two coaching inns, The Three Swans and The Angel, which are reminiscent of the days when the town was a coaching stop between Leicester and Northampton. The tall red brick building between the High Street and Church Street (now dress boutiques) was the original Town Hall. A ten-minute walk out of town towards Leicester will take you to Union Wharf (p21), the redeveloped canal basin that links Market Harborough with the Grand Union Canal. You can hire narrowboats here, and enjoy Manor Walk a pleasant cruise to the nearby village of Foxton. Old Grammar School There are several small yards and side streets tucked away in Market Attractive Market Harborough is a fine country town, Harborough town centre that are bustling and prosperous. As its name suggests, it has well worth exploring. Don’t miss had an established market for centuries, but during Bennett’s Place and Joules Yard, the 19th century it thrived as a centre of manufacturing, both off the High Street, and also Church Street and Adam and particularly of corsets. Today, Market Harborough boasts Eve Street, which meander from many stylish shops and boutiques, which makes it a the High Street around the back popular place for visitors. of the church to St Mary’s Road. St Mary’s Place, just off St Mary’s Road is a pedestrianised shopping Exploring Market centre, and crosses the River Harborough Welland, with its attractive riverside walk. The heart of Market Harborough focuses on three rather striking but very different buildings. The intriguing 17th century Old Adam and Eve Street Grammar School was built on stilts in 1614 to provide welcome education for local children, as well Market Harborough also has a as shelter for market traders in bad large leisure centre (p26) on weather. Next door is the medieval the outskirts of the town as well as church of St Dionysius, unusual for tennis courts and bowling greens having no graveyard, and behind at Welland Park (p22). it is the former Symington Corset Entertainment is on offer at the Factory, an imposing red brick Harborough Theatre (p26), Victorian building, now housing next to the Old Grammar School, the district council offices (including which holds regular programmes tourist information) the library, and Anne Karin Interiors The Kitchen Range Cookshop and events. the Harborough Museum (p19). 3 www.goleicestershire.com www.goleicestershire.com 4 Market Harborough Market Harborough Shopping Eating & Drinking Eating & Drinking There is a good range of places to eat and drink in Market Harborough. Cafés and coffee shops include Enigma Café Bar (also open in the evening, with a club upstairs), Blend, Joules Eating House, Aldwinkles and Webb’s Café Bistro. There are several restaurants too, including Han, an excellent Chinese restaurant, the lively Italian restaurant Covatis at Union Wharf, Babe Blooz for Indian food and The Three Swans, which is great for a special occasion. More places to eat can be found on pages 27-32. Parking There are plenty of car parks in Market Harborough, all of which Enigma Café Bar are close to the town centre. A small charge is payable. Don’t Miss… A stroll around the Shopping at Esse church, Old Grammar School and along the Shopping High Street Market Harborough boasts several big high street stores, but it is its wide The small shops and range of exclusive shops that are responsible for its growing shopping café in Bennett’s Place reputation. From designer boutiques and antique dealers to gift shops, traditional butchers and fishmongers, the town offers a very varied Exclusive boutiques on shopping experience. Church Street, Adam and Eve Street and the Church Street and the upper end of the High Street are the places to find more individual shops, upper High Street as well as Bennett’s Place, a tiny courtyard just behind number 31 High Street (just before The Angel). Other shopping places include the pleasant Local history displays arcade Manor Walk off Coventry Road, and St Mary’s Place off St Mary’s in Harborough Museum Road. The indoor Market Hall (formerly the site of the old cattle market) is off St Mary’s Place (also an entrance from Northampton Road) and A walk along the markets are held here every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday, with an canal towpath from antiques fair on Sundays. A farmers’ market is held in The Square on the first Thursday of every month and European markets are also held Union Wharf here twice a year. Shopping on the High Street 5 www.goleicestershire.com www.goleicestershire.com 6 Harborough Museum Market Harborough Map To Union Wharf & Leicester D A O R L L I M N R BOW U DEN B LANE D A O R BENNE TTS D D L PLACE O E I D F D R P I P R A I D F JOULES YARD G E R D O ABBEY STREET A O A R D 6 'KINGS STREET 4 T ING E K 'S HE Adam and Eve Street, Market Harborough LE16 7AG E R T AD P t: 01858 821 085 S E LA H N CE C www.leics.gov.uk/museums A R L Y U L HIGH H O NWA C A CHURC M Charming market town museum housing the O TALBOT YARD H O H S R Open: Mon-Sat 10am- Lutterworth Q C 1 Symington collection of food and corsetry (the S U A To 4.30pm, Sun 2pm-5pm. R S home of the famous liberty bodice). Find out CO 2 E i YM V I EN AD 3 N Open May and August Bank AM P GT about the fascinating history of this beautiful town T 5 A O R N N W Holidays. Y R D AY dating back to the 12th century. Displays include O E AD V E Admission: Free K STR a reconstructed shoemaker’s workshop and a THE E 1 E unique collection of 17th century street toys. Rail: Mkt. Harborough / mile. WAL T 2 MANOR SQUARE Temporary exhibitions, which change seasonally, Bus: Regular. P include many aspects of the region’s history. Situated in the centre of the P T E ST Access to our collections and information town. Access is from behind M RIVER WELLAND PO A resources, which include a huge variety of local the Council Offices. RY P 'S PLAC 'S P 'S photographs, is also available . R O A T D 7 MARY ST P elland Park Railway Station W WELLAND PARK ROAD ROAD 8 & Lutterworth To To T P ET RE The UK’s specialist in hot ST S IELD KETTERING ROAD weather travel clothing all year PRINGF round.