Mountsorrel Heritage Group The website displays selected material from the Mountsorrel Archive. The archive is available in the village museum above Mountsorrel Library for anyone to view. The museum is open Thursday and Friday afternoon from 2pm until 5pm and Saturday morning from 9.30 until 12 noon Our monthly talks are usually on the second […]
These images show the houses on Leicester Road before they were demolished to make way for the flats
Members of the Ecology Sub-group of the Mountsorrel Heritage Group have been out and about, writing up notes on some of their favourite walks in the village. These have been reproduced in the walks, complete with photos (alphabetical) and markers (numerical) on the sketch map to help guide you on your way, and to show […]
Distance: about three miles; about 75 minutes General conditions and accessibility: mixture of tarmac paths, firm granite chip walks and uneven muddy surfaces with several stiles to climb and kissing gates to pass through.
Mountsorrel Fair goes back to July 14th 1292 when Edward I granted to Nicholas de Seagrave, Lord of the Manor, the privilege of holding a weekly market on Mondays and a yearly fair. The fair was to be held for eight days on the vigil, feast and morrow of St John the Baptist and five […]
There was an earlier Swan Inn in Mountsorrel mentioned in a report by the Commissioners of Charitable Uses, dated the 27th day of September 1687. Rent from the premises was paid into a charity called the Town Rents. The Swan today was originally called the Nag’s Head. The building is a late 17th century listed […]
A man who was to be an integral part of Mountsorrel life in the late 19th and early 20th century, William Harrington, was born in 1846 in Melton Mowbray. The woman who was subsequently to be his wife and bear his many children, Mary Ann Louth Allam was born in Market Deeping in 1848.
In 1687 the Commissioners for Charitable Uses reported on their investigation into the ‘Town Rents’ charity. They were working under the Act to redress the Misimployment of Lands, Goods, and Stocks of Money, heretofore given to Charitable Uses. They discovered that: The rents from property and land in Mountsorell, Quorndon, Barrow sur Soarum, and Roathlye […]
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The whole of the township of Mountsorrel South The census was taken on 2nd April 1871 This census was transcribed by Linda Tyman If you have any queries regarding the information within the census, please contact me via my email address-linda.tyman@btinternet.com
