Markfield

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

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.

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

Find out about the meetings and speakers arranged by the Markfield Local History Group.