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 did not have a memorial showing the names of all the fallen of the village until 2014.

The history of the Markfield men who died in the Great War and are on the village war memorial is being added as time allows.

This page provides a brief overview of the events leading up to the start and end of the two world wars.