Markfield

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See the meetings & speakers arranged by the Markfield Local History Group. Next up is 20 May 2025, Murder and Mayhem in Medieval Leicester.

8 May 2025 is the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day in 1945. Read how it 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.

Markfield Scouts was started in 1948 by Gordon Chesterton. Find out more about the Group's history.