Quorn, Leicestershire - Dower House - RP postcard c.1960s

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  • Picture / Image:  Dower House, Quorn, Leicestershire - real photo type of the the house
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Quorn is a village in Leicestershire, England, situated next to the university town of Loughborough. Quorn's name was shortened from Quorndon in 1889, to avoid postal difficulties owing to its similarity to the name of another village, Quarndon, a few miles away. Its original name is said to derive from the Old English cweordun. Dun, Old English for Hill, where cweorn, Old English for millstones, are quarried.

The first known evidence of the village is in the Lincoln Episcopal Registers for 1209–1235, as Quernendon. Other variations of the village name over the centuries include Querne, Quendon, Querendon, Quim, Quarendon, Qaryndon, Querinden, Querondon, and Quernedon.[1]

The quarrying of stone in Quorn began at a very early age at Buddon Wood, on the edge of the parish. Granite millstones were quarried in the early Iron Age, and under the Romans stone was quarried for building in Leicester. Some of the larger millstones can still be seen in the area, however these days they are either used as garden ornaments, or worked into seats or slabs.

Quorn Hall, off Meynell Road on the eastern edge of the village, was built for the Farnham family in about 1680.[2] It became the home of renowned fox hunter Hugo Meynell in 1753. He established his pack of hounds there, where it continued under later masters until 1905, thus giving a name to the famous Quorn Hunt.[3] A Royal Navy ship, HMS Quorn, is named in honour of the hunt.[4]

96 men from Quorn lost their lives in the two World Wars (77 in World War I and 19 in World War II).[5] A cenotaph in Quorn's Memorial Gardens honours these men.

""Quorn Camp"" was established on the grounds of Quorn House during World War II. It was used as a PoW camp[6][7] and was also host to a number of the United States Army 82nd Airborne Division's 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment.[8] These paratroopers were involved in liberating the town of Sainte-Mere-Eglise, in Normandy, France, on the morning of D-Day and included Pvt. John Marvin Steele who famously became caught on the town's church spire.[9] This incident is today commemorated with a dummy paratrooper and parachute attached to the church in Sainte-Mere-Eglise.

A number of American veterans come back to Quorn, particularly every tenth anniversary of the D-Day landings, to remember their time in Quorn and their comrades who did not return.[10]

There is a plaque commemorating the lost US servicemen in Quorn's Memorial Gardens, upon which a poppy wreath is placed each year on Remembrance Sunday. There is also an avenue of lime trees in Stafford Orchard (the village park) in remembrance of those American soldiers that died, together with a plaque.[8]