In primeval days, the forest was so thick hereabouts that it is said a man could walk from Beaumanor in Charnwood to Bardon without seeing the sun. A Bronze Age axe some 3000 years old was found during quarrying. Bardon Hill has been the site of a quarry since at least 1622.
Part of the Warren Hill range in Charnwood Forest, at 278m (912feet) tree-studded, granite blocked Bardon Hill is not only the highest point in Leicestershire but also the highest point on a straight eastern line all the way to the Urals in Russia.
Bardon Hill quarry dates back to 1860 and is still active today.
Faced in local stone St Peter’s Church was built by the Everard Family in memory of the late Breedon and Elizabeth Everard and consecrated in 1899, for the quarry workers and their families. To this day there is a plate high up on the west wall reading “To the Glory of God and in memory of Breedon and Elizabeth Ann Everard, this church was built in 1899.
From Bardon Hill on a clear day you can see the Malvern and Shropshire Hills, summits in Derbyshire and Lincoln Cathedral.