Coaches 27 – Loughborough – Barrow-Upon-Soar – Mountsorrel – Rothley -Syston – Thurmaston The nearest mainline railway station is Sileby railway station, with hourly services to Leicester and Nottingham – Lincoln. The closest railway station is Mountsorrel railway station on Bond Lane, just about around a kilometre outside of the village. The station is the terminus of the Mountsorrel Railway, a heritage railway and the branch line of the Great Central Railway. Notable persons James Biddles, father of the 19th-century actor James Biddles, whose daughter Adelaide married the actor and stage manager Charles Alexander Calvert Rosemary Conley, the creator of the Hip & Thigh Diet, lived in Mountsorrel before moving to Quorndon. Hilda Lewis, daughter of the vicar William Lewis, married the palaeontologist Leslie Reginald Cox The sculptor John Charles Felix Rossi lived in the village in the 19th century There is a plaque, stating that it is believed locally that Dick Turpin used the mounting point opposite The Swan Inn, Loughborough Road, Rebecca Wakefield née Brewin, pioneering Victorian missionary in East Africa References External links Village website Villages in Leicestershire Civil parishes in Leicestershire Borough of Charnwood Quarries in England Nature reserves in Leicestershire