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Leicestershire Towns & Parishes

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Great Bowden

Description in 1877:
&"Bowden Magna, or Great Bowden, is a long straggling village, with several good houses, pleasantly situated about a mile N.E. of Market Harborough, on the north side of the vale of the River Welland, which separates it from Northamptonshire. Its parish is in Gartree Hundred, Market Harborough Union and County Court District, and, comprising the two townships of Great Bowden and Market Harborough, in 1871 contained 3812 inhabitants, living in 831 houses, on 3120 acres of land. It is traversed on the west by the Union Canal, and on the east by the Rugby and Stamford and the Midland Railways. The soil is clay, and chiefly pasture, and is supposed to be the best grazing land in England."
[White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of the Counties of Leicester and Rutland. 3rd Edition 1877]

Bibliography Census

Church History Church Records Description and Travel

Maps Societies

Bibliography.

• Great Bowden - A village and its People is reviewed at length on the BigFern Guide to Market Harborough. The book (ISBN 0 9536981 0 6) was published in 1999 by Great Bowden Historical Society.
  
  

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Census

• The 1851 Census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche.
  
  

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Church History.

• Footsteps have a low resolution photograph of the church, high resolution copies can be ordered.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Society of Genealogists holds microfiche copies of Great Bowden parish records including baptisms from 1559 - 1880, marriages from 1564 - 1837 and burials from 1560 - 1857 which can be studied at their library in London.
  
  

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Description and Travel

This village and parish lie just northeast of Market Harborough, just off of the A36 trunk road.

If you are planning a visit:

• The village has its own website with local news and events.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SP 7488.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  
• Multi Media Mapping have a current map showing the location of Great Bowden.
  
  

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Population

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Market Harborough online have pages for Great Bowden Heritage which is active on Anglo-Saxon Heritage - and a wild flower survey.

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This parish page was developed by Tim Arguile.

Follow this link to find help, report problems or contribute information.

[Last updated: 5-March-2008 - Louis R. Mills]