Great Bowden is a Village in the county of Leicestershire.

Great Bowden postcode: LE16 7HW

Retail in Great Bowden

There are great places to visit near Great Bowden including some great cities, historic monuments, canals, hiking areas, historic buildings, parks, shopping centres, airports, towns, villages, lakes, country parks and ruins.

Leicester is one of Great Bowden's best, nearby cities to visit in Great Bowden.

The area around Great Bowden's best historic monuments can be found at The Arch of Remembrance.

Canals to visit near Great Bowden include Grand Union Canal at Leicester.

Don't miss Grand Union Canal at Leicester's hiking areas if visiting the area around Great Bowden.

There are a number of historic buildings near Great Bowden including Leicester Cathedral, Church of St Nicholas - Leicester, Lavenham Guildhall, Bradgate House, and Old John Tower.

There are a several good parks in the Great Bowden area like Abbey Park, Wilton Park, and Bradgate Park.

Shopping Centres to visit near Great Bowden include Highcross Leicester.

Great Bowden's best nearby airports can be found at Leicester Airport, and East Midlands Airport.

Great Bowden's best nearby towns can be found at Loughborough, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Melton Mowbray, and Market Harborough.

There are a several good villages in the Great Bowden area like Lavenham, Cropston, Newtown Linford, Saddington, and Rothley.

Great Bowden is near some unmissable lakes like Cropston Reservoir,

Great Bowden has some unmissable country parks nearby like Bradgate Park, and East Carlton Countryside Park.

Don't miss Bradgate House, and Old John Tower's ruins if visiting the area around Great Bowden.

Great Bowden History

There are some historic monuments around Great Bowden:

• Marston Trussell shrunken medieval village and moat
• Medieval manorial fishponds at The Banks
• Sibbertoft motte and bailey castle.
• Gumley motte castle
• Old Hall moated site
• Braybrooke Castle: the remains of a medieval moated manor and medieval settlement remains
• Kibworth Harcourt post mill
• Medieval manorial earthworks and gardens 140m south of Manor House
• Bridge at Medbourne
• Churchyard cross in St Michael's churchyard
• Two bowl barrows and a henge 600m east of Mill Hill Farm
• Motte in Hall Field
• Hallaton motte and bailey castle
• St Mary in Arden Church
• Medieval settlement remains at East Farndon
• Gumley medieval settlement remains and field systems, 620m south east of the Church of St Helen
• Manorial site west of St Gile's Church and medieval settlement west of Manor Farm
• Thorpe Lubenham moated site and remains of shifted medieval village
• Chapel immediately north west of Manor House
• Medieval settlement at Nobold, 440m east of Lowe Farm
• Kelmarsh medieval settlement
• Braybrooke Bridge
• Stoke Albany moated site and fishponds
• Gumley medieval settlement remains, rabbit warren and field systems, 600m south west of the Church of St Helen
• Site of manor house
• Medieval village remains immediately south of the church
• Inclined plane immediately east of Foxton Locks
• Medieval village earthworks, fishponds and mill leat at Stonton Wyville
• Clipston medieval settlement
• Butter Cross 150m east of the church
• Abandoned Medieval Village of Little Oxendon