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There are no other sizeable towns within an area 10 miles north, 12 miles east, 6 miles south and 7 miles west of Lutterworth. With one notable exception the countryside around consists of fields and villages many of which deserve the epithet ‘pretty’.

Some of the places of interest easily reached from Lutterworth are:

STANFORD HALL

Stanford Hall, five miles SE of Lutterworth, was rebuilt in the 1690’s by the famous Smiths of Warwick for Sir Roger Cave. It is still owned by one of his descendants. The house, which stands in lovely park land through which flows the river Avon, contains a noteworthy collection of Stuart pictures and relics which belonged to Henry Stuart, Cardinal Duke of York, the last of the Royal line of Stuarts.

Percy Pilcher, the first man to fly in England, was killed in 1899 when his flying machine “The Hawk” crashed at Stanford. A fine replica of “The Hawk” is in the stable block.

There is a motorcycle museum containing 85 exhibits of unique racing and other cycles.
The Hall, museum and grounds are open from Easter until the end of September on Sundays, Bank Holiday Mondays (except August) from 1.30pm – 5.30pm. Please refer to website for special events on www.stanfordhall.co.uk

FOXTON LOCKS

About 12 miles to the east of Lutterworth is the famous staircase of canal locks completed in 1814. The staircase consists of two sets of 5 locks with a central passing pool. The difference in the levels of the top and bottom locks is just over 75 feet, a quite spectacular rise.
This is also the site of the Foxton Inclined Plane, an amazing device built in 1900 in which barges were floated in steel tanks and carried up or down the 75 ft. incline. Its use was discontinued in 1911 but it is being restored by the Foxton Inclined Plane Trust.