Leicester Forest East The school will eventually provide 210 places with the potential to expand as demand increases over the next few years. The Discovery Schools Academy Trust has been selected to sponsor the school. The school has extensive parking for staff, parents, visitors and local residents. Most people know Leicester Forest East for the Leicester Forest East motorway service station on the M1 motorway, which opened on 14 February 1966 just over a year after the motorway reached Markfield. It was based on an Italian design used on the "autostrade" which is very unusual in Britain. At the time of opening it
Wallace Markfield College in 1947, then doing his graduate work at New York University between 1948-1950. In 1948 he married Anna May Goodman; the couple had a daughter named Andrea. He later taught creative writing at San Francisco State College (1966–68), Kirkland College (1968–69), and Queens College (1971–73). At the time of his death he had been working on a novel for eleven years. Markfield died of a heart attack in Roslyn, New York, on May 24, 2002. In addition to "To an Early Grave" and "Teitelbaum's Window" Markfield also wrote "You Could Live If They Let You" (1974), "Multiple Orgasms" (1977)