Abbey Cottage is a small family run restaurant located in the picturesque town of Market Harborough offering home cooked Chinese cuisine to Eat In, Take Away or for home Delivery.  

All of our dishes are freshly prepared from scratch using our own recipes by our highly knowledgeable and experienced Hong Kong Chefs. We use traditional cooking methods with the western twist.  

We opened in 1997 and are proud to be one of the longest serving restaurants in the area under the same ownership.

If you’ve ever dreamed of commanding 17 tons of armoured steel, Armourgeddon is your ultimate destination for tank driving and combat. Nowhere else in the world can you take the controls of a real FV432 tank, navigating rugged terrain across 16 acres, and then up the stakes with a world-exclusive Tank Paintball Battle. Perfect for families, friends, or solo adventurers, Armourgeddon delivers an unforgettable mix of exhilaration, combat, and fun.

Kelmarsh Hall is an elegant 18th century country house set in the rolling Northamptonshire countryside, located approximately five miles south of Market Harborough.

The Hall and award winning Gardens are open to the public from April through to September each year. They have an excellent tea room serving morning coffee, lunch and afternoon tea.

Explore Foxton Locks, a historic canal marvel in Leicestershire, offering picturesque landscapes, canal heritage, boat trips, and a glimpse into 19th-century engineering brilliance.

How do you lift a fully loaded narrowboat up a 75ft hill? Engineers of the past 200 years have come up with not one but two ingenious solutions at Foxton and, together, they offer a day out like no other.

There are flights of locks all over the nation’s canal network but there’s nowhere quite like Foxton Locks – the longest and steepest staircase of locks in the country. Ten locks back-breakingly carved by hand through the Leicestershire countryside.

An innovative boat lift, or inclined plane, was built next to the locks to carry boats up and down the steep hill in giant bathtubs, or caissons, of water. Expensive to operate, and under increasing competition from the railways, it was mothballed after just 11 years but today visitors can stand on the remains and find out more about how it worked in the nearby museum.

Two centuries ago Foxton would have bustled with the sights, sounds and smells of a working waterway but today it offers a peaceful escape where you can almost feel life slowing down. There’s a friendlier feel too, where people passing on the towpath say hello and there’s always a smiling lock keeper on-hand for a chat.

Maybe you’ll enjoy a spot of ‘gongoozling’, the art of watching the beautifully painted narrowboats make their way through the locks. With around 5,000 boats passing through each year, Foxton is the perfect place to try it.