Mountsorrel Wikipedia
Mountsorrel is home to one of the largest granite quarries in Europe, with an area of 785,400 m 2. The granite, technically hornblende granite, is primarily used in construction and roadrepair. The quarry produces approximately 3 million tonnes per annum with reserves of 160 million tonnes of granite, making it one of the top ten largest producing quarries in Europe [12] in 1997.