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Saddington
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thumb|upright=1.38|Tunnel entrance to the Grand Union Canal Saddington is a village in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. It is close to Smeeton Westerby, Gumley, Kibworth and Fleckney. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 309.
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- Harborough
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- England
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- United Kingdom
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thumb|upright=1.38|Tunnel entrance to the Grand Union Canal Saddington is a village in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. It is close to Smeeton Westerby, Gumley, Kibworth and Fleckney. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 309.
It is a small hilltop village close to and south of Fleckney. It overlooks the Saddington Reservoir, constructed in 1802 to feed the Grand Union Canal. The canal flows through the parish including in a tunnel of . The church of St Helen in medieval style largely dates from 1872–73 and retains an original 13th-century north doorway and other masonry of around 1300 and around 1400.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saddington” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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