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Extract from the Market Harborough Travel Guides:
MARKET HARBOROUGH
, fifteen miles southeast of Leicester, is an unassuming provincial town that once prospered from its position at the junction of the turnpike roads to Leicester, Nottingham and London. Consequently, the predominantly Georgian High Street's
Three Swans
and
Angel
hotels were originally coaching inns, and the square and solid brick
Town Hall
was designed to help local traders sell their wares - with butchers on the ground floor and cloth merchants up above. Just off the High Street, the triangular Market Place is overlooked by the church of
St Dionysius
... read the whole Market Harborough Travel Guides...
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