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🌿 Market Harborough L1 Leisure & Residential Mooring
Grand Union Canal | Market Harborough, Leicestershire
📍 Location
Set within a short distance of rolling hills and beautiful countryside, Market Harborough L1 is located at the end of the lock-free Market Harborough Arm, just half a mile from the town centre. The site sits within the restored Union Wharf, surrounded by red-brick warehouses now converted into apartments, workshops, and creative spaces.
🚤 Mooring Details
- Berths: 10 leisure and 2 residential moorings
- Pontoon type: Fixed with GRP surface
- Each pontoon: 6 metres long with electric and water bollards
- Electricity: Supplied via Smart Meter system (online account required)
- Type: Mix of leisure and residential moorings
- Access: Open on three sides; no gated entrance
🛠️ Facilities
- Drinking water
- Electricity
- Elsan disposal
- Refuse disposal
- All customer items must be stored on boats, not on surrounding land
🚲 Towpath & Access
- Viewing: Accessible at any time from the towpath
- Please respect the privacy of moorers
- No access restrictions
🏘️ Nearby Amenities
- Town: Market Harborough — independent shops, indoor market, restaurants, cafés
- Rail: Market Harborough Station, St Mary’s Road, LE16 7DT
- Local shop and newsagents: ~200 metres away on Leicester Road
- Historic Foxton Locks: ~5.5 miles east
- Fleckney village: ~10 miles via lock-free cruise
✅ Dredged Waterway
The site benefits from dredging due to be carried out in early 2026, ensuring improved depth, access, and navigation throughout the mooring area.
Leisure berths
Leisure moorings are for boat storage between trips, with weekend stays and occasional longer visits welcome.
Residential berths
Residential moorings have full planning consent and are subject to Council Tax.
📌 Additional Info
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- Grade: Standard
- Waterway: Grand Union Canal
- Viewing: No restrictions
- Site Facilities
- Electricity Drinking Water Elsan Disposal Refuse Disposal
- Nearest Road
- Market Harborough town centre, where a range of shops and services are available, is approximately half a mile south east of the site. There is a small shop and newsagents approximately 200 metres from the site on the B6047, Leicester Road, opposite the entrance to the Basin. Market Harborough Basin is at the end of the Market Harborough Arm. The entrance to the Basin is from the B6047, Leicester Road, taking the Union Wharf 'No Through Road', next to the Union Inn. Follow the path on foot around the Basin to the mooring pontoons on the south side of the Basin.
- Nearest Station
- Market Harborough, St Mary’s Road, Market Harborough, LE16 7DT.
- Nearest Town
- Market Harborough
- Additional Information
Site Information
Facilities & Services
- Elsan disposal is located opposite the moorings and is shared with visiting boaters and the general public.
- Please note: these facilities are provided by and under the control of the local waterway and do not form part of the mooring agreement.
- There are five pontoons in the Basin, each 6 metres long with a metal mesh walkway.
- Each pontoon has an electric and water service bollard.
- Electricity is supplied via a Smart Meter system, with accounts and payments managed online.
Local Environment
The moorings are situated beside residential apartments and close to several local businesses, including a restaurant and pub. The Basin is also home to a busy hire fleet.
Important Notes
Fuel restriction: Only boats using smokeless fuel are accepted at this site.
About Union Wharf
The restored Union Wharf in Market Harborough features converted red‑brick warehouses, now home to waterside apartments and arts and crafts workshops. Once a bustling industrial area, it is now a vibrant hub of creative activity and hire‑boat operations — a great place to relax and watch boats set off on their holidays.
Don’t forget to visit Frank the Plank, the human sundial — a fun way to teach children to tell the time in a very different way.
Location
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Start Dates
- Auction listings: Mooring agreements begin 15 days after the auction closing date unless an alternative start date is stated in the vacancy details.
- Buy It Now listings: Mooring agreements begin 2 weeks after the purchase date unless otherwise specified.
Application & Invoicing
Your mooring invoice will only be issued once your application has been fully processed and all requirements have been met.
Boat Requirements
- ✔ Valid Boat Safety Certificate
- ✔ Current Licence
- ✔ Active Insurance
- ✔ Capability to navigate on any Trust waterways where it will be used
- Waterway
- Grand Union Canal
- Access Restrictions
- All customer items must be stored on boats and not on any of the surrounding land areas The mooring site has no access restrictions and can be viewed at any time
- Car Parking
- None/Public Road
- Facilities Block
- No
- Gated Access
- None
- Grade
- Standard
- Lighting
- Low Level Lighting
- Pontoon Type
- Fixed with GRP Surface
- Viewing Arrangements
- There are no viewing restrictions. The site may be viewed at any time from the towpath opposite. Whilst at the site however, please respect the privacy of other moorers.
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- Drinking Water
- Electricity
- Elsan Disposal
- Pump Out
- Refuse Disposal