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In 1872, the Mountsorrel Granite Company acquired the rights to quarry the area from the Broad Hill quarry, and a hospital had become established in the village to deal with those made ill by the dust created by the quarrying. Mountsorrel quarry. Mountsorrel is home to one of the largest granite quarries in Europe, with an area of 785,400 m 2. [11]
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 19:00, 26 September 2010: 1,425 × 1,123 (2.23 MB): Nilfanion {{Information |Description=Map of Leicestershire, UK with the following information shown: *Administrative borders *Coastline, lakes and rivers *Roads and railways *Urban areas Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S
Construction started around November 1859 on a line 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long. It ran from the local quarries of the Mountsorrel Granite Company at the north west of Mountsorrel, through the village on an embankment 20 feet (6.1 m) high, crossing the turnpike road on an iron girder bridge of 39 feet (12 m) span, over the River Soar on a viaduct of 5 arches (the largest being 80 feet (24 m) in ...
To the south it borders the City of Leicester, about 20 km away from Loughborough. There is a moderately urbanised A6 corridor between the two population centres and close to the River Soar , including Quorn, Barrow-on-Soar , Mountsorrel , Birstall , Sileby , Thurmaston , Syston , Queniborough and East Goscote .
A garden centre (Commonwealth English spelling; U.S. nursery or garden center) is a retail operation that sells plants and related products for the domestic garden as its primary business. It is a development from the concept of the retail plant nursery but with a wider range of outdoor products and on-site facilities.
Dobbies Garden Centre, Aberdeen. The business was founded in 1865 by James Dobbie, who created a seeds business named Dobbie & Co. in Renfrew, Scotland.After being awarded the Royal Warrant for Gardeners and Nurserymen to the Royal Household, the company expanded into a seed catalogue business, where it built up a customer base of 50,000 over the following century.
Its first garden centre was Woodthorpe Hall, built on a farm. [5] In 2010, it acquired its fifth garden centre. [6] In 2018, the firm operated ten garden centres. [4] In 2019, the company acquired 37 garden centres from Wyevale Garden Centres. [7] In December 2019, the firm completed its acquisition of Hillview, a chain of eight garden centres. [8]
Mountsorrel Meadows is a 12.6-hectare (31-acre) nature reserve on the eastern outskirts of Mountsorrel in Leicestershire. It is purchased by the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust in 2004. [1] This site on the bank of the River Soar was farmland until 2006, but is now managed for wildlife. Areas of wet woodland have been created by a ...