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Mountsorrel history
Early history
A Roman villa is supposed to have existed on Broad Hill during the 4th century AD, the site of today’s quarry. A castle was built in 1080 by Hugh Lupus, but there is evidence of an earlier Norman settlement in the area in the form of pottery fragments. In 1151, Robert le Bossu, the Earl of Leicester acquired the tenancy of Mountsorrel castle.
Recent history
The Leicester Navigation was opened in 1794 and the first barges between Loughborough and Leicester departed on 26 October. The village was visited by Methodist preacher John Wesley, where he preached in a building which now belongs to Stonehurst Family Farm, a tourist attraction. Mountsorrel was the site for a hospital for the mentally ill, which had 91 beds in 1979, but has since closed and been converted to a housing estate.
The Butter Market
The Butter Market was built in 1793 by the Lord of the Manor, Sir John Danvers, to replace the fifteenth century Market Cross, which he had removed from his estate in Swithland, where it still remains. It is a Grade II* listed structure.
The Old Rectory
Adam Style building opposite St Peter’s Church was built in 1783 for Ralph Tebbutt. Formerly known as Mountsorrel Hall it was a vicarage until 1983. A copy of this building was erected in Liverpool in 1790 and William Ewart Gladstone was born there.
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