MOUNT SORREL, a market town in the Loughborough (Mid) parliamentary division of Leicestershire, on the river Soar, 7 m. N. of Leicester. Pop. (1901), 2417. The Sileby station on the Midland main line lies 112 m. E. The position is beautiful, a steep hill, once crowned by a castle, rising above the well-wooded valley. At Barrow-upon-Soar, 212 m. N. (pop. 2409; Barrow and Quorn railway station), lime is worked extensively. The village of Quorndon or Quorn, 112 m. N.W., is the headquarters of the well-known Quorn hunt. Quorndon is an urban district (pop. 2173).