Market Harborough & Around Through Time

Tourism was born in Market Harborough in 1841 when Thomas Cook, a local cabinetmaker, set off towards Leicester and had his dream of worldwide working-class travel. The town was born to serve travellers. Centuries before, the town had been built to provide a market place for trades-people near to the ''new'' highway connecting Northampton and Leicester. Eight hundred years later, the market is sti...