Mountsorrel And Rothley Community Heritage Centre

Mountsorrel And Rothley Community Heritage Centre Updates about the Mountsorrel and Rothley Heritage Centre site and Granite's Coffee Shop
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The Heritage Centre's Digger Play area has had an upgrade with the addition of cones, hard hats and new spades, to help ...
01/06/2026

The Heritage Centre's Digger Play area has had an upgrade with the addition of cones, hard hats and new spades, to help our budding young play construction workers have even more fun!

Big thanks to a team of volunteers from Equans Facilities Management who spent two days at the Heritage Centre recently,...
01/06/2026

Big thanks to a team of volunteers from Equans Facilities Management who spent two days at the Heritage Centre recently, to help with vegetation management and to paint wood preserver onto our newly restored Robert Stephenson Lift Bridge and museum!

Don't worry if you missed the Chelsea Flower show, the Heritage Centre gardens are looking spectacular and they are here...
25/05/2026

Don't worry if you missed the Chelsea Flower show, the Heritage Centre gardens are looking spectacular and they are here for you to enjoy all year round! Have a look at a few photos from yesterday.

Plus there's museums, nature trails, train rides, and a whole host of different play zones for the kids to enjoy.

Entrance fees on non special event days are just £2.50 adults and £1.50 children. Find us at LE7 7UE.

23/05/2026

Check out this great little clip of Roger the steam engine blowing smoke rings at our Steam Days Special event today!!

Steam Days continues tomorrow. Don't forget as well that there's even the chance for visitors aged over 16 to drive our other Steam engine Colin!

See our event for all the details.
https://www.facebook.com/share/1DnVJpEmyN/

19/05/2026

This weekend May 23rd & 24th sees our second Steam Days Special Event!

We have two steam locos in action! They’ll be “Colin” running cab rides and driver experiences in the Heritage Centre Sidings, and “Roger” will be hauling passenger trains on our Quarry Bottom Railway!

Here’s a clip of Roger in action on our Quarry Bottom Railway!

See our event for all the details. https://fb.me/e/212ec3ihKZ

In addition at all the attractions and interest areas we have at the Heritage Centre, on Saturday 23rd, we also have our annual plant sale on the patio outside Granite’s. They’ll be lots of plants for sale grown by our gardening volunteers in the Heritage Centre’s own nursery, at fantastic prices!

They’ll be shrubs, Perennials, Native plants & much more. The plant sale runs from opening at 10am until 2pm. All proceeds go towards developing and maintaining the Heritage Centre’s beautiful formal gardens.

Big thanks to Tarmac Mountsorrel Quarry who have donated a second lot of 9 tonnes of fine stone to finish the topping of...
18/05/2026

Big thanks to Tarmac Mountsorrel Quarry who have donated a second lot of 9 tonnes of fine stone to finish the topping off of our Adventure trail woodland path! Not only that, but this time they kindly provided several members of their staff to come and help us lay the new path surface as part of a corporate volunteering day!

All the stone was shoveled into barrows and pushed some considerable distance to be dropped along the path, so they certainly got their steps in that day! Big thanks as well to our Heritage Centre volunteer team who also lent a hand moving the stone.

Once mother nature has rained on it and then baked it with sunshine, the fine stone will form a hard surface to allow wheel chair visitors and visitors with prams/buggies, to experience the woodland walk without having to contend with mud in wet weather.

Thanks again to Tarmac for all their help and support!

With so many amazing Special Events going on at the Heritage Centre throughout 2026, it's easy to forget that the Herita...
13/05/2026

With so many amazing Special Events going on at the Heritage Centre throughout 2026, it's easy to forget that the Heritage Centre site and Granite's are actual open 7 days a week!

So what can you see and do if you visit the Heritage Centre on a weekday?

Admission to Granite's Coffee Shop, the museum rooms and play area is free.

To access the main part of the site is £2.50 adults and £1.50 children, which includes access to the Adventure Trail with Digger Play, Den Building, Tree House (New), Balance Beams, High Level Viewing Area, Wooden Train and Crazy Golf (a game of Crazy Golf costs £2.50 extra).

Down in the Quarry Bottom you’ll find the Butterfly Garden, Stone Masons’ Huts, Railway Museum, Quarry Heritage Building, King Charles III Coronation Garden, Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Garden, Peace Garden, Botanical Garden, Robert Stephenson’s Lift Bridge and Museum, Narrow Gauge Railway Traverser, LMS wagon Museum, with its vintage train set.

Then there is the Discovery Trail, with Sensory Area, Wooden Xylophone, Bug Hunt, Wild Flower Meadow, Story Telling Dome, Hedge Hog Village, Stick Man, Picnic Area and Bird Feeding Stations!

In addition to this, on weekdays during school holidays our Quarry Bottom Railway runs train rides from 10:15am until 3:45pm every day (£2 adults, £1 children) and the Garden Railway operates 10am until 4pm for our younger visitors to drive the little radio controlled trains (£1.50 for 5 minutes).

Come and spend a morning, afternoon, or we are seeing increasing numbers of visitors spending all day with us, there's so much to do!

We look forward to welcoming you to the Heritage Centre soon!

This Saturday, May 9th, we have our diesel loco Ruston out in the Heritage Centre sidings, offering rides in the cab of ...
06/05/2026

This Saturday, May 9th, we have our diesel loco Ruston out in the Heritage Centre sidings, offering rides in the cab of the locomotive for £5 per adult with up to two accompanying children riding for free!

For £10 we are also offering 10 minute driver expereinces in the Ruston where adults aged 16 or over get to drive the loco themselves!

In addition to the cab rides and driver expereinces, there’s so much to see and do for all the family at the Heritage Centre site.

Entry to the site is just £2.50 Adults and £1.50 children, which gets you access to the Adventure Trail with Digger Play, Den Building Tree House (New), Balance Beams, High Level Viewing Area, Wooden Train, Crazy Golf (*) and Garden Railway (*).

Down in the Quarry Bottom you’ll find the Butterfly Garden, Stone Masons’ Huts, Railway Museum, Quarry Heritage Building, Quarry Bottom Railway train rides (*), King Charles III Coronation Garden, Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Garden, Peace Garden, Botanical Garden, Robert Stephenson’s Lift Bridge and Museum, Narrow Gauge Railway Traverser, LMS wagon Museum, with its vintage train set.

Then there is the Discovery Trail, with Sensor Area, Wooden Xylophone, Bug Hunt, Wild Flower Meadow, Story Telling Dome, Hedge Hog Village, Stick Man, Picnic Area and Bird Feeding Stations.

Wow, hope you didn’t miss any of that!

(*) - Optional attractions with an additional small charge are the Crazy Golf , open every day and is £2.50 per game, the Garden Railway is £1.50 to drive the little trains. The Quarry Bottom Railway train rides around the Heritage Centre’s beautiful garden area are £2 adults and £1 children.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Last November we opened our new wheelchair accessible Tree House, which has proved very popular with all our visitors (s...
02/05/2026

Last November we opened our new wheelchair accessible Tree House, which has proved very popular with all our visitors (see our post from November. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1LSnpCuCdi/

You'll find the Tree House half way around the Heritage Centre's Adventure Trail.

The trail path was great in dry weather and access to the Tree House was no problem, but during periods of wet weather the path leading to it would become very muddy indeed. It's no good having a wonderfully accessible Tree House if wheel chair users get bogged down in the mud getting to it!

So we asked our wonderful friends at Tarmac Mountsorrel Quarry if they could donate 9 tonnes of stone and quarry fines for our volunteers to lay to create a firm path surface so all our visitors, including those with wheel chairs and prams/push chairs, could all access the Tree House. They kindly agreed and the stone was delivered last Monday and by lunchtime on Tuesday our volunteers had created the new path!

Mother nature needs to do her bit now, with a few doses of rain and then spring sunshine to dry the stone and we'll have the perfect firm surface.

Massive thanks to Tarmac Mountsorrel Quarry for their support and to our volunteers for shovelling and barrowing the 9 tonnes of stone!

Address

240 Swithland Lane
Mountsorrel
LE77UE

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 4:45pm
Tuesday 10am - 4:45pm
Wednesday 10am - 4:45pm
Thursday 10am - 4:45pm
Friday 10am - 4:45pm
Saturday 10am - 4:45pm
Sunday 10am - 4:45pm

Telephone

01162374591

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