The district also includes the town of Lutterworth and numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.

In the north of the district it includes parts of the Leicester Urban Area, notably at Thurnby, Bushby and Scraptoft.

[17] The council purchased the building in 1980 and converted it to become its offices and meeting place, as well as providing a new library for the town.

Low hills swell out of shallow valleys and villages are pinpointed by church spires peeping above dark spinneys.

Near Foxton and Gumley the Laughton Hills tumble down to the Grand Union Canal and Welland Valley, forming one of the best landscapes in this part of the district.

High Leicestershire consists of the tract of land between Market Harborough, Tilton On The Hill and towards Melton Mowbray and forms some of the loneliest countryside in the Midlands.

Many villages were deserted centuries ago and remote hills such as Robin-a-Tiptoe in the parish of Tilton peer out over pastures and the occasional farmhouse.

Despite Harborough District being the largest in Leicestershire by area it is primarily rural in nature and its population density is relatively low.

Other villages include Scraptoft (1,804), Houghton on the Hill (1,524), Husbands Bosworth (1,145), Great Bowden (1,017), Gilmorton (976), Ullesthorpe (903) and Billesdon (901).

The village of Stanford-on-Avon is in Northamptonshire but the house and park are on the Leicestershire bank of the River Avon The Grand Union Canal (old) cuts across the district from Husbands Bosworth to Newton Harcourt with a spur to Market Harborough which leaves the Canal at Foxton.

The HYC meets usually once per month, and sends representatives to CYCLe (County Youth Council Leicestershire).