Harborough

The Harborough district covers the south-eastern part of Leicestershire and is centred on Market Harborough, with Lutterworth, Kibworth, Fleckney and Broughton Astley among its larger settlements. Rural parishes reach into the Welland valley and the district borders Rutland and Northamptonshire. Market Harborough sits on the River Welland and on the Midland Main Line, with direct rail services to Leicester and London St Pancras. Market days and local produce markets continue in Market Harborough while smaller villages retain parish churches and village greens.

Waterways and transport history are visible across the district: the Foxton flight of ten locks on the Leicester line of the Grand Union Canal sits alongside the surviving remains of the Foxton Inclined Plane. Near Husbands Bosworth an aerodrome hosts a gliding club and light aircraft activity on a former RAF site. The landscape is a mix of arable fields, hedgerows and small woodlands, crossed by footpaths and bridleways that link villages to parish churches, village halls and former market centres.