"to one rugby club aptly named Melton Rugby club who compete in Midlands 3 East. The town has its own Sunday Football League in which some 15 teams compete every Sunday. Asfordby Hill is home to Holwell Sports who play in the Leicestershire Senior League premier division. Melton Mowbray Melton Mowbray () is a town in Leicestershire, England, northeast of Leicester, and southeast of Nottingham. The town is on the River Eye and the River Wreake and has a population of 25,554. The town is best known for its culinary speciality, the Melton Mowbray pork pie, and it is one"
"Melton Country Park Melton Country Park is a country park in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England. The park has a visitor centre, cafe, sensory garden, nature trail, climbing forest, memorial garden, stepping stones, bridges, bird hides, a dam, a troll bridge, sports grounds and cricket fields. A Parkrun takes place every week. The park was given a Green Flag Award in 2018. A reservoir was built in the 1990s to reduce the risk of flooding to properties in Melton from Scalford Brook and sits at the centre of the country park. Since 1996 it has been operated and maintained by the"
"hand-formed pastry and served cold. Both Stilton cheese and Melton Mowbray pies are covered by European Protected Designation of Origin orders. ""Belvoir Angels"" are a type of early 18th century Swithland slate tombstone found in the district. A comprehensive account of the natural history of the Vale was compiled in 1790 by the poet George Crabbe, who was chaplain to the Duke of Rutland and rector of Muston, Leicestershire. It includes a list of more than 70 beetle species. The vale is renowned fox hunting country and has many historical ties to the sport. A controversial coalfield development was proposed"
"RAF Melton Mowbray Royal Air Force Melton Mowbray or more simply RAF Melton Mowbray is a former Royal Air Force station located south of the centre of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire and south east of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. The Class A airfield was originally intended for aircraft maintenance but was taken over by RAF Transport Command. Many types of aircraft were flown from the airfield, including Supermarine Spitfire, de Havilland Mosquito, Vought F4U Corsair, Vultee A-31 Vengeance, Grumman F6F Hellcat, Douglas C-47 Dakota and Handley Page Halifax aircraft, plus Airspeed Horsa and Waco Hadrian gliders. Between 1946 and 1958 the site"
"Melton Mowbray-style pies by large commercial companies in factories far from Melton Mowbray, and recipes that deviated from the original uncured pork form. Protection was granted on 4 April 2008, with the result that only pies made within a designated zone around Melton, and using the traditional recipe including uncured pork, are allowed to carry the Melton Mowbray name on their packaging. There is a tradition in the East Midlands of eating pork pies for breakfast at Christmas. While its origin is unclear, the association of pork pies with Christmas dates back to at least the mid 19th century and"
"Borough of Melton Melton is a local government district with borough status in north-eastern Leicestershire, England. It is named after its main town, Melton Mowbray. Other settlements include Asfordby and Bottesford. It has a population of 46,861, increasing to 50,376 at the 2011 census. Melton Borough is an attractive rural area in the north-east part of Leicestershire and at the heart of the East Midlands. It is the 10th smallest district in England. The main activities of the Borough are centred on the single market town of Melton Mowbray which has a population of about 26,000. There are some 70"
"the usage of ""Melton Mowbray"" on the wrappings of its own pork pies. Northern Foods viewed the situation as unfair and stated in press releases that the MMPPA's dominant member, Samworth Brothers, has made cured and uncured pork pies in Leicester and that the designation area was shaped to include the Samworth factory there. According to Northern Foods, 99% of the pork pies made under the association banner are made by Samworth Brothers. Northern Foods took the matter to the European Court of Justice, but the appeal was eventually withdrawn. Northern Foods' move against the new requirements was dismissed by"
"Melton Carnegie Museum The Melton Carnegie Museum is a museum in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England, which documents the history of the market town. It is managed by Leicestershire County Council and supported by Melton Borough Council and is Heritage Lottery Funded. The former Carnegie Library, built in 1905, was refurbished and opened by Leicestershire County Council in 1977 as the Melton Carnegie Museum. In 1983 the National Museum of Hunting Trust was established. With Melton being a world-renowned centre of fox hunting, the Melton building was intended to incorporate material on hunting. A planned refurbishment of the building, costing some"
"Melton Mowbray station won ""highly commended"" award at the National Rail Awards 2014 for Small station of the year. Melton Mowbray railway station Melton Mowbray railway station serves the town of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, England. It is owned by Network Rail and operated by East Midlands Trains (EMT) train operating company (TOC). The station is on the (as built) Syston and Peterborough Railway, the line is now part of the much bigger Birmingham to Peterborough Line. CrossCountry operate the majority of services as part of their Birmingham to Stansted Airport route. The station lies between Leicester and Peterborough stations."
"distinctive flavour. Various markets are held across the county. Leicester Market is the largest outdoor covered marketplace in Europe and among the products on sale are fruit and vegetables sold by market stallholders, and fresh fish and meat in the Indoor Market. The annual East Midlands Food & Drink Festival held in Melton Mowbray had over 200 exhibitors and 20,000 visitors attending in 2007 making it the largest British regional food festival. Food processing in the city and county includes popular British fish and chip shop pie Pukka Pies who are based in Syston. Walkers Midshire Foods, part of the"
"Melton Mowbray railway station Melton Mowbray railway station serves the town of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, England. It is owned by Network Rail and operated by East Midlands Trains (EMT) train operating company (TOC). The station is on the (as built) Syston and Peterborough Railway, the line is now part of the much bigger Birmingham to Peterborough Line. CrossCountry operate the majority of services as part of their Birmingham to Stansted Airport route. The station lies between Leicester and Peterborough stations. The station was formerly known as Melton Mowbray Town to distinguish it from the now closed Melton Mowbray North"
"In lighter weights melton cloth is traditionally used for lining the underside of jacket collars. It was developed in the Leicestershire town of Melton Mowbray, from which it derives its name. This town is the traditional centre of English fox-hunting, and black and scarlet hunting coats are traditionally made from melton cloth, due to its weatherproof qualities. In England not only is melton used for the scarlet hunting coat, an iconic symbol of the upper-class elite, but it is also used in black for the donkey jacket, an iconic symbol of the working class labouring man. Both uses rely on"
"ever stayed there or not. Anne of Cleves' house is now a public house which is owned by Everards Brewery, a Leicester-based brewery. Between 1942 and 1964, RAF Melton Mowbray was situated to the south of the Town, towards Great Dalby. The Class A airfield was originally intended for aircraft maintenance but was taken over by RAF Transport Command. Between 1946 and 1958 the site was used as a Displaced Persons camp by the Polish Resettlement Corps. Melton Mowbray served as a Thor Strategic missile site between 1958 and 1963, when 254(SM) Squadron operated a flight of three missiles from"
"at a rate lower than the other districts within Leicestershire. In March 2012, Melton was identified as having the highest rate of accidental death by The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, with statistics over the period from 2010/11 showing an average of 29 deaths for 100,000 people. Borough of Melton Melton is a local government district with borough status in north-eastern Leicestershire, England. It is named after its main town, Melton Mowbray. Other settlements include Asfordby and Bottesford. It has a population of 46,861, increasing to 50,376 at the 2011 census. Melton Borough is an attractive rural area"
"late Saxon period. Hose was cited as ""Hoches"" and ""Howes"" in the Domesday Book of 1086. Hose, Leicestershire Hose is a village in the English county of Leicestershire, within the Borough of Melton. The population is about 500. The town of Melton Mowbray is six miles (10 km) to the south. Forming part of the civil parish of Clawson, Hose and Harby, Hose is in the far north-east of the county, in the Vale of Belvoir. It lies close to the route of the defunct Grantham Canal, which has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest and underwent a"
"found on the National Pipe Organ Register. Taken from handwritten list in the church on the organ console: St Mary's Church, Melton Mowbray St Mary's Church, Melton Mowbray is a parish church in the Church of England located in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. By 2016, the church, described as ""one of the finest parish churches in Leicestershire"" had fallen into a poor state of repair and was deemed ""unfit for purpose"" leading to an appeal for £2m to restore it. St Mary's Church is the largest and ""stateliest"" parish church in Leicestershire, with visible remains dating mainly from the 13th-15th centuries."
"Environment Agency. The dam is designed to cope with a 1 in a 100 year flood. The park has been planted with trees and shrubs and has a permanent lake which provides wetland habitat for invertebrates, fish and birds. Stepping stones and a footbridge allow walkers to cross the brook. Melton Country Park Melton Country Park is a country park in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England. The park has a visitor centre, cafe, sensory garden, nature trail, climbing forest, memorial garden, stepping stones, bridges, bird hides, a dam, a troll bridge, sports grounds and cricket fields. A Parkrun takes place every"
"of the Royal Navy have been called , after the Hunt. The Quorn hunts a wide area of Leicestershire, plus some coverts in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, stretching from just south of Nottingham to the edge of the city of Leicester and from Melton Mowbray westwards to Ashby de la Zouch. On the eastern side of the country lies a rolling open landscape, with good fences to jump, while to the west are the wooded uplands of Charnwood Forest and the Pennine Chain. The best centres are around Melton Mowbray, Leicester and Loughborough. In 1853, the southern part of its country"
"and two priests. The water mills, still in use up to the 18th century, are remembered by the present names of Beckmill Court and Mill Street. Melton Mowbray has been a market town for over 1,000 years. Recorded as Leicestershire's only market in the 1086 Domesday Survey, it is the third oldest market in England. Tuesday has been market day ever since royal approval was given in 1324. The market was established with tolls before 1077. Legacies from the Medieval period include consolidation of village and market town patterns; in Melton Mowbray, Bottesford, Wymondham, and Waltham-on-the-Wolds. The latter had a"
"St Mary's Church, Melton Mowbray St Mary's Church, Melton Mowbray is a parish church in the Church of England located in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. By 2016, the church, described as ""one of the finest parish churches in Leicestershire"" had fallen into a poor state of repair and was deemed ""unfit for purpose"" leading to an appeal for £2m to restore it. St Mary's Church is the largest and ""stateliest"" parish church in Leicestershire, with visible remains dating mainly from the 13th-15th centuries. The stonework in the lowest section of the tower, which has Norman windows, dates from 1170, although there"
"Melton Mowbray Navigation The Melton Mowbray Navigation was formed when the River Wreake in Leicestershire, England, was made navigable upstream from its junction with the River Soar and the Leicester Navigation near Syston to Melton Mowbray, opening in 1797. Largely river navigation, there were numerous lock cuts, to accommodate the 12 broad locks built along its length, many of which were built at sites where it was necessary to maintain the water levels for an adjacent mill. With railway competition, and the closure of the Oakham Canal, to which it was connected, decline was rapid, and the canal closed in"
"history of these trades and others including saddle, shoemaking and tinsmithing and the impact they had on the town, as well as how the Romans, Anglo Saxons, Normans, Tudors, Georgians and Victorians would have lived in the area. The phrase ""painting the town red"" also has strong local connections. The Museum is accredited by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA). Melton Carnegie Museum The Melton Carnegie Museum is a museum in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England, which documents the history of the market town. It is managed by Leicestershire County Council and supported by Melton Borough Council and is Heritage"
"years with the exception of 1941 (due to the Second World War). In 2011, the parish covered an area of and included Folksworth The village gave its name to Stilton cheese. Previously the most widely accepted explanation was that the cheese came down to be sold at the coaching inns in Stilton. Daniel Defoe in 1722 described the village as famous for its cheese. Traditionally it was thought that supplies were obtained from the housekeeper at Quenby Hall, Hungarton, Leicestershire, near Melton Mowbray, and were sold via her brother-in-law to travellers in Stilton's coaching inns, namely the ""Bell Inn"" or"
"which is a tight-woven woollen cloth that is heavily milled, and a nap raised so as to form a short, dense, non-lustrous pile. Sailors' pea coats are traditionally made of Melton cloth, as are the universal workmans' donkey jackets of Britain and Ireland, and in North America, loggers' ""cruising jackets"" and Mackinaws. Melton shares a member of parliament (currently Alan Duncan from the Conservatives) with Rutland, which together form the appropriately named ""Rutland and Melton"" parliamentary constituency. Melton Mowbray is home to a rare example of early town government. The Melton Mowbray Town Estate was founded at the time of"
"family name – the name of early Lords of the Manor – namely Robert de Mowbray. In and around Melton, there are 28 scheduled ancient monuments, around 705 buildings listed as having special architectural or historical interest, 16 sites of special scientific interest, and several deserted village sites. There is industrial archaeology including the Grantham Canal and the remains of the Melton Mowbray Navigation. Windmill sites, ironstone working and smelting archaeological evidence suggest that Melton borough was densely populated in Bronze and Iron Ages. Many small village communities existed and strategic points at Burrough Hill and Belvoir were fortified. There"
"Melton is a mutual organisation owned by its more than 40,000 members. The Society is a member of the Building Societies Association. The Melton Building Society The Melton is a building society based in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire in the East Midlands. The Melton was established in 1875 and is one of the oldest surviving building societies in the United Kingdom with over 65,000 members. It provides mortgages, savings, insurance and investment products from its principal office and three branches in Melton Mowbray, Oakham and Grantham. The society has a subsidiary, named MBS Lending Limited, which provides mortgage finance to customers"
"term ""Cheddar cheese"" is widely used, but has no protected designation of origin within the European Union. However, in 2007 a Protected Designation of Origin, ""West Country Farmhouse Cheddar"", was created and only Cheddar produced from local milk within Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall and manufactured using traditional methods may use the name. Outside of Europe, the style and quality of cheeses labelled as cheddar may vary greatly, with some processed cheeses being packaged as ""cheddar"" while bearing little resemblance. Furthermore, certain cheeses that are more similar in taste and appearance to Red Leicester are sometimes popularly marketed as ""Red"
"Hose, Leicestershire Hose is a village in the English county of Leicestershire, within the Borough of Melton. The population is about 500. The town of Melton Mowbray is six miles (10 km) to the south. Forming part of the civil parish of Clawson, Hose and Harby, Hose is in the far north-east of the county, in the Vale of Belvoir. It lies close to the route of the defunct Grantham Canal, which has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest and underwent a programme of environmental dredging and planting in 2014. The weekday bus service between Melton and Bottesford"
"was used as a Polish Resettlement Corps camp housing Polish Air Force personnel and their relations. Melton Mowbray served as a Thor Strategic missile site between 1959 and 1963, when 254(SM) Squadron operated a flight of three missiles from the base. The airfield now houses a small industrial estate and little of the original infrastructure has survived. The airfield regularly hosts large ""bank holiday"" markets. RAF Melton Mowbray Royal Air Force Melton Mowbray or more simply RAF Melton Mowbray is a former Royal Air Force station located south of the centre of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire and south east of Loughborough,"
"occupied from the late first century. Goadby Marwood Goadby Marwood is a village in the north of the English county of Leicestershire. It is about north of Melton Mowbray and a few miles from the Vale of Belvoir. The population is included in the civil parish of Eaton. Most of the houses are built from locally mined ironstone and some, including Goadby Hall, date from the 17th century. There is only one road into, and out of, the village. Goadby Marwood has no public house or shop, but has a post office with limited opening hours. In the 1950s the"
"The Melton Building Society The Melton is a building society based in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire in the East Midlands. The Melton was established in 1875 and is one of the oldest surviving building societies in the United Kingdom with over 65,000 members. It provides mortgages, savings, insurance and investment products from its principal office and three branches in Melton Mowbray, Oakham and Grantham. The society has a subsidiary, named MBS Lending Limited, which provides mortgage finance to customers who do not meet the criteria to become society members and accounts for approximately 14% of total outstanding loans (December 2015). The"
"rare orchids. Philip's Street Atlas Leicestershire and Rutland (page 58) Asfordby Hill Asfordby Hill is a hamlet on the A6006 road, in the parish of Asfordby , in the Melton District, in the English county of Leicestershire. Asfordby Hill has a primary school which was built in 1909. An excellent garden centre with an alpine themed restaurant and farm shop. At the farm shop you can buy a proper Melton Mowbray pork pie as well as a variety of other pies, including a penguin pie! Asfordby Hill Steel Works remains open and is owned by St.Gobain. It is a little"
"in late 2012, following lengthy discussions between the society, Sustrans, Leicestershire County Council and British Waterways. Once completed, Syston Lock will need to be refurbished to open up the first of the waterway to Lewin Bridge and the Gate Hangs Well public house. Melton Mowbray Navigation The Melton Mowbray Navigation was formed when the River Wreake in Leicestershire, England, was made navigable upstream from its junction with the River Soar and the Leicester Navigation near Syston to Melton Mowbray, opening in 1797. Largely river navigation, there were numerous lock cuts, to accommodate the 12 broad locks built along its length,"