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13/05/2026

🚴‍♂️ Best Bike Rides Around Market Harborough 🚴‍♀️

If you’re looking for good cycling routes around Market Harborough, there are loads of great options nearby — from easy traffic-free rides to scenic countryside loops and MTB trails.

🌿 Brampton Valley Way
One of the best local routes. Mostly traffic-free along an old railway line with gentle gradients and amazing countryside views. You can ride through the famous Oxendon and Kelmarsh tunnels too (bring lights!). Perfect for hybrids, gravel bikes, families, or relaxed road rides.

📍 Great for:
✅ Easy riding
✅ Gravel & hybrids
✅ Family rides
✅ 10–30 mile loops

🚲 Foxton Locks & Langtons Loop
A classic scenic ride through quiet villages, rolling hills, and beautiful Leicestershire countryside. Popular with local cyclists and ideal for a café stop along the way.

Villages worth riding through:
• Great Bowden
• Medbourne
• Hallaton
• The Langtons

🌳 Traffic-Free Local Loops
There are several really good greenway and rail-trail routes around Harborough if you want to avoid busy roads completely. Ideal for beginners or casual rides.

🌲 Mountain Bike / Off-Road Spots Nearby

🚵 Fineshade Wood
Fantastic forest riding with MTB trails plus easier woodland tracks.

🚵 Wakerley Woods
Natural woodland trails with more adventurous riding and flowing sections.

🚵 Brixworth Country Park
Good for reservoir loops and linking into Brampton Valley Way.

☕ Bonus: Plenty of good café and farm shop stops around the area too.

13/05/2026

Places to go Paddle Boarding near us!

Union Wharf Narrowboats & Boutique Narrowboats
Great launch point right in Market Harborough onto the Grand Union Canal. The stretch toward Foxton Locks is calm, scenic, and popular with SUP paddlers.

Foxton Locks
Probably the nicest nearby paddle route. You can paddle along the canal basin and towpaths with countryside views and waterside pubs/cafés nearby.

Rutland Watersports
Around 35–40 minutes away and one of the best all-round SUP venues in the Midlands. Safer and more open than canals, with rentals, lessons, and changing facilities. Good for longer paddles and improving skills.

Frisby Lakes Paddlesports
Excellent if you want flat-water training, beginner sessions, or club-style paddling. Quieter than Rutland Water.

PaddleDays
Thrapston area on the River Nene. Good guided paddles and beginner-friendly sessions.

13/05/2026

Walking Places of Interest near to us

Uncover the rich history of our district with the Heritage Trail Series.