Harborough

Harborough

This is about the district of Harborough; there is also the Harborough constituency.

Harborough is a local government district of Leicestershire, England, named after its main town, Market Harborough. Other settlements in the district include Broughton Astley, Lutterworth, Kibworth and Great Easton. The north-western area of the district runs directly into the Leicester urban area, and includes such villages as Thurnby, Bushby and Scraptoft. The district borders on to the Unitary Authority City of Leicester, the Borough of Kettering, the Borough of Corby, the District of Daventry, the Unitary Authority county of Rutland, the Borough of Charnwood and the Borough of Melton as well as the county of Warwickshire.

History

The district was formed in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972. It was a merger of the Market Harborough urban district, along with Market Harborough Rural District, Billesdon Rural District and Lutterworth Rural District.

More than 5,000 silver and gold coins, around 2,000 years old, were found at a site near Harborough around 2002. Coin Hoard Article

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Civil Parishes

Market Harborough is unparished. There have been calls to set up a town council for the area.

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