soap Crossroads. Transport The village has a weekday daytime bus service to Melton Mowbray and Bottesford. The nearest railway station is at Bottesford (3.7 miles, 6.0 km) on the Nottingham to Grantham/Skegness line. Redmile and Belvoir railway station, on a line from Melton Mowbray North to Newark Castle station, with a branch at Bottesford for Grantham and Skegness, opened in 1879 but closed to passengers in 1951. The Grantham Canal to Nottingham opened in 1797 and closed in 1936. Short sections have reopened for leisure craft. Notable people Thomas Daffy (died 1680), who became rector of Redmile in 1666, invented a patent medicine, Daffy's Elixir, in about 1647. The Leicestershire cricketer Frederic Geeson (1862–1920) was born in Redmile. The international cricketer Luke Wright (born 1985) attended the village school. References External links Villages in Leicestershire Civil parishes in Leicestershire Borough of Melton