Loughborough Echo

SO YOU WANT TO MOVE TO... QUORN

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■Quorn is a thriving community village.

■With its transport links, close proximity to Loughborou­gh and Leicester, the village is perfect for commuters.

■Its name was shortened from Quorndon in 1889.

■The original name is said to derive from the Old English cweordun. Dun, Old English for Hill, where cweorn, Old English for millstones, are quarried.

■It has its own primary school St Bartholome­w’s and secondary school, Rawlins Academy.

■It has just won a Gold in the East Midlands in Bloom Awards

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