🌿 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
- Facilities block shared with visiting boaters and public
- Car parking: Public-use car park nearby with limited space
- 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
🏡 Leisure & Residential Use
Leisure moorings are for boat storage between trips, with weekend stays and occasional longer visits welcome. Residential moorings have full planning consent and are subject to Council Tax.
📌 Additional Info
- What3Words: celebrate.host.tanks
- 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
- Facilities are located within the Basin, opposite the moorings, and are shared with visiting boaters and the general public. Please be aware, these facilities are provided by and under the control of the local waterway, they do not form part of the mooring agreement. There are 5 pontoons in the Basin, all are 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. Electricity accounts and payments are accessed via the internet. The moorings are by residential apartments and there are several businesses near to the site, including a restaurant and pub. The Basin also provides the base for a busy hire fleet. There is a public car park next to the access road with limited space available. IMPORTANT NOTES: Only boats that use smokeless fuel will be accepted at the site. The restored Union Wharf in Market Harborough is home to red-brick warehouses, most of which have been converted to trendy waterside apartments and arts and crafts workshops. What was once a bustling industrial quarter is now a hub of creative activity and home to hire boats. A great place to sit and people-watch as they set off on their boating holidays. And don't forget to visit 'Frank the Plank' the human sundial - and teach the kids to tell the time in a very different way. What3Words: ///celebrate.host.tanks
- 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
- Shared(Waterway/Moorings)
- Gated Access
- None
- Grade
- Standard
- 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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- Car Parking Nearby
- Drinking Water
- Electricity
- Elsan Disposal
- Pump Out
- Refuse Disposal
- Showers
- Toilets