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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]
The farm (established in 1851) is currently open to the public daily and is home to many differing animals. The farm operates tractor trailer rides for the local children, currently [when?] hoping to link up with the Mountsorrel Railway creating a large linked family attraction. [1] Stonehurst has a working farm with several interactive ...
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.
Its first garden centre was Woodthorpe Hall, built on a farm. [6] In 2010, it acquired its fifth garden centre. [7] In 2018, the firm operated ten garden centres. [4] In 2019, the company acquired 37 garden centres from Wyevale Garden Centres. [8] In December 2019, the firm completed its acquisition of Hillview, a chain of eight garden centres. [9]
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 ...
Birstall village centre. Birstall lies on the A6 and is the last major settlement before Leicester when arriving from the north. Birstall thus forms part of the Leicester Urban Area. The village centre lies just off the A6, along Sibson Road. The village contains two supermarkets, a garden centre and a variety of other shops.
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 .
Quorn is built around the old A6 road which runs through the centre of the village. On 28 October 1991 a dual carriageway bypass opened taking the A6 away to the north-eastern edge of the village. On 28 October 1991 a dual carriageway bypass opened taking the A6 away to the north-eastern edge of the village.