Distance: Two miles approximately.
General conditions and accessibility:
Mixture of tarmac paths, unpaved tracks, occasional muddy patches in wet weather or winter conditions, kissing gates.
Start and finish:
The Butter Market, Market Place, Mountsorrel, LE12 7BA
Parking: Mountsorrel Memorial Centre LE12 7AG OR Little Lane LE12 7BA (To get to the Butter Market from the Memorial Centre turn right and keep walking until you reach the domed building – the Butter Market. From the entrance to Little Lane turn right and walk towards the Butter Market)
Eat, drink and toilet facilities: Butter Market Café, Market Place (Mon-Fri 9am-3pm; Sat 9am-2pm); Sorrel Youth Cafe (near Memorial Centre), The Green (Mon-Fri 9am-2pm); The Swan public House is just down the road from Market Place towards Quorn and the Waterside public house is just over the river on Sileby Road, opposite St Peter’s Church.
There are public toilets in the Library (Church House) during opening hours, opposite the Memorial Centre.
Public Transport:
Start / finish points are on regular bus routes: Arriva 127 – Shepshed / Leicester; Winsons X26 – Loughborough / Rothley; Roberts 27 – Loughborough / Asda, Thurmaston
The walk:
1) Starting at the Butter Market go up the hill, away from the main road, along Watling Street. (Possible detour to the War Memorial on the left). Where the road forks take the right hand path, following the granite wall forming the boundary of Quarry Hill Grange Nursing Home on your right.
At the top of Watling Street
2) cross over on to Cufflin’s Pit Lane, through a gate 
Photograph A.
Follow track. Broad Hill is on the right, the site of the old granite quarry, now reinstated. On the left is the area of common land known as ‘The Hills’.
Continue along the path, passing a small-holding on the left (this is the site of Christchurch School’s allotments during World War II).
Further along on the left are fields in which you can just about see the contours of the medieval ridge (rig/rigg) and furrow system. As you continue along the path, round a sharp right-hand bend
3) you can see better evidence of this system in the fields to your left. You can often see horses grazing in these fields which were part of the old Thorncliff Field strip system.
So far this walk has been part of the Leicestershire Round but we now deviate from it, taking the permissive path
4) on your right (look for the yellow post marking this) up the hill, skirting the edge of the reconstituted Broad Hill up to the figure carved out of a large granite boulder. He is commonly known as ‘Albert’ and represents a sett-maker from the quarry. See if you can also find the lizard carved into the rock.
If you have time pause awhile at the top
5) Over the fence you can look over Broad Hill to the valley beyond, including the British Gypsum works, with the granite quarry, currently owned by Tarmac, to your left. With your back to the fence you will be looking towards Wanlip and the wind turbine on the site of Wanlip Sewage Works.
The path continues round and down, with banks of gorse on your left 
Photo B
At the bottom there is a kissing-gate and a further gate leads to the quarry road. Turn right along this road, keeping to the right hand side to avoid any lorries which may be using it. Go straight ahead and pass through two gates arriving at
6) the bend in Crown Lane. Follow the road up the hill until you return to the junction of Crown Lane and Cufflin’s Pit Lane.
At this point 7) you have a choice:
a) Turn left down Watling Street back to the Butter Market or
b) Continue to follow the road down The Navins.
As you walk down The Navins the old school / quarry hospital is on your left and Castle Hill is behind you. [The school was originally given to Mountsorrel in 1742 according to the plaque on the wall. It closed in 1871 and was leased to the Mountsorrel Granite Company at £10pa and used as a quarry hospital] Castle Hill / World War I Memorial is worth a detour for good views of the Soar Valley.
Continuing down The Navins you can see Christ Church in front of you and (on the right) a fenced off area called “The Froggy” , from which a natural spring used to flow) followed by the wildflower meadow created by Mountsorrel Heritage Group at the bottom of the hill.
8) Turn left down the Green, passing the Pinfold on your left (Stray animals were kept in the Pinfold. It was last used in 1919). Continue down to the main road, passing Church House / Mountsorrel Library on the right and Sorrel Youth Café on the left. Straight ahead is the Mountsorrel Memorial Centre.
9) Turn left (Castle Gardens on the left hand side was created in the 1990s and contains a statue of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke who “sacked” Mountsorrel castle in 1217 to end decades of disputes over the castle’s ownership) and walk along Leicester Road / Main Street to arrive back at the Butter Market.