Page "Market Harborough" Paragraph 17

There was a rapid expansion in the town's population from 4, 400 in 1861 to 7, 700 in 1901.

This had been at the expense of living conditions with severe overcrowding in the old town ..

Rows of cottages had been built in the yards of older houses with shared access to water and waste disposal.

The Public Health Act of 1875 required local authorities to implement building regulations, or bye-laws, which insisted that each house should be self-contained, with its own sanitation and water.

In 1883 a new system of sewers were laid and piped water supplied from wells at Husbands Bosworth.

Additional residential areas were developed – the New Harborough estate off Coventry Road and the Northampton Road estate between Nithsdale Avenue and Caxton St.