Markfield, Leicestershire

Description
Markfield, a village and a parish in Leicestershire. The village stands 3 miles SE of Bardon Hill station on the Leicester and Burton branch of the M.R., and 7 1/2 NW of Leicester, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Leicester. The parish comprises 2303 acres; population of the civil parish, 1439; of the ecclesiastical, 1373. The manor belongs to the Countess of Stamford and War-rington. Granite is quarried on an extensive scale. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £295 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Early English and Decorated styles, with tower and spire and was rebuilt and enlarged in 1865. There are Congregational, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels, a cemetery, opened in 1887, with a chapel, and some small charities. A church mission room was built in 1892 for the hamlet of Shaw Lane.