Markfield

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Details of our 2026 programme of meetings, speakers and walks - including Joseph Merrick, cardinals chariots and queens, and local pubs.

Learn more about the history of Markfield quarries, with the slides from a talk in November 2025.

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.