Markfield

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For our final meeting of the year on 18 November 2025, Colin Sharpe will share some of the history of the quarries in and around Markfield.

The Victory Bell in St Michael and All Angels' Parish Church was dedicated in 1949, as a memorial to the villagers who had fallen in the Second World War.

2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Read how Victory in Europe Day in 1945 was celebrated in Markfield.

Markfield Hill is noted for its very hard granite, was a quarry from the mid 1850s and its wire-rope way made international news.