Traditional county: Leicestershire · District / Borough: Harborough · Region: East Midlands
Explore Knaptoft, Leicestershire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Knaptoft map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
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| Place | Knaptoft |
| Traditional County | Leicestershire |
| District / Borough | Harborough |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.500859 |
| Longitude | -1.077737 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Knaptoft remains a quiet fragment of the Leicestershire landscape, defined by the slow erosion of human ambition back into the earth. It lies 6.1 miles east-north-east of Lutterworth (from Lutterworth: bearing 58°T, OS grid SP 627 896), and is situated south-south-east of Shearsby village. The horizon here is dominated by the Knaptoft Medieval Settlement and Manorial Complex, where the ruins of a church and the faint, grassy depressions of three fishponds mark a place where life once crowded closely together. A short distance away, the elevation of John Ball Hill offers a vantage point across the rolling pasture, catching the low, pale light that clarifies the contours of the fields. Centuries of agricultural practice have smoothed the ridge-and-furrow patterns into a rhythmic topography that catches the morning frost. Where the land descends, Mowsley Brook traces a thin, silver line through the clay, feeding the moisture that keeps the valley floor perpetually verdant. Knaptoft serves as a silent witness to the transience of medieval life, its history preserved not in stone towers but in the subtle, overgrown embankments of a vanished manor. The air carries a heavy, damp stillness, grounded in the loam and the persistent memory of a larger congregation than the current solitude suggests.
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Explore Knaptoft, Leicestershire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 52.500859, -1.077737. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | August 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |