Markfield

Click this post to learn how to get the best from the site and to find the information you are looking for.

Learn more about the Markfield Local History Group.

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

Find out more about guided walks, the village trail leaflet and the information board.

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