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Sep 7, 2021 · Located in the county of Leicestershire, and around 15 miles northeast of Leicester, is the town of Melton Mowbray. In the Domesday Book of 1086 Melton Mowbray was recorded as 'Medeltune'.
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Join me for a walk around the internationally-renowned home of the pork pie: Melton Mowbray! Also famed as a centre for stilton cheese production, and today ...
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What I love about England and my home town of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire is NATURE!The feel of the air. The smell of the countryside. The sounds of the...
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- St Mary’s Church
- Twinlakes Theme Park
- Melton Carnegie Museum
- Melton Heritage Trail
- Melton Country Park
- Melton Mowbray Pork Pies
- Stilton Cheese
- Belvoir Brewery
- Melton Regal Cinema
- Play Close
The largest parish church in Leicestershire is also the finest. Inside, St Mary’s Church is almost entirely from the 13th and 14th centuries, while the Perpendicular Gothic exterior, clear by the castellations, broad clerestory windows and pinnacles, was completed in the 15th century. You can call in Monday to Saturdays, to soak up the scale of thi...
This family-oriented theme park couldn’t be closer to Melton Mowbray and is all designed with younger children in mind. Twinlakes’ various zones have names like Excalibur Adventure, Xtreme Scream Park and Action USA, all found in 70 acres of lush countryside next to a pair of lakes. And unlike many attractions like this, Twinlakes remains open all ...
Melton Mowbray’s town museum is in a former Carnegie Library, one of more than 2,500 that the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie funded worldwide at the turn of the 20th century. This one was built in 1905, becoming a local museum in 1977 and then undergoing a renovation and extension in the 2000s. You can brush up on the history of the town, and dip i...
A jaunt around the town centre won’t take long, but there’s much to see with the help of a free app and a pdf map of the Melton Heritage Trail on the Go Leicestershire website. On Burton Street you’ll come to a row of fascinating historic buildings. The Bede House here is a 17th-century almshouse where six lowly widows or widowers could stay for fr...
A ten-minute stroll from the town centre, this park in the north of the town has been awarded a Green Flag every year since 2015 and boasts all the amenities needed to win this prize. There’s a cafe, open seven days a week in summer, a sensory garden, nature trails, a European tree circle, some deep woodland on the south side, picnic areas and a la...
The Melton Mowbray pork pie is took off as a favourite snack of fox hunters in the 19th century. The true version has a hand-made crust, with a chopped, uncured pork filling enclosed within a layer of pork jelly. Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe is an essential stop on Nottingham Street, and demonstrates the art of making a hand-raised pie. At the end of Ju...
This crumbly blue cheese with a potent whiff was also first produced in the countryside near Melton Mowbray. As it happens, Stilton comes in blue and white varieties, but blue is far more famous. By the terms of Blue Stilton’s PDO it has to be made from local milk, have a cylindrical shape and delicate blue veins that radiate from its core. If you’...
Founded in 1995, the Belvoir Brewery now supplies ales, stouts and bitters to 275 pubs within 50 miles of Melton Mowbray. Among these are some creative labels, like Oatmeal Stout, brewed with oats and Maris Otter barley, and Blue Brew, which infuses Stilton whey into its unfermented wort. You can go behind the scenes on a guided tour, but you’ll ha...
There may not be a finer local cinema in the UK than this Art Deco wonder on King Street. The Regal opened in 1933 as an independent cinema, and this might account for the attention to detail in its design, as well as its sheer luxury. The King Street frontage is clad with blue and orange faience tiles, and has an exterior balcony with tall metal-f...
In the 19th century this land on the River Eye, just beyond St Mary’s Church belonged to Lord Melbourne who allowed the townsfolk to use it for recreation. In the 1840s a baker on Park Lane to the north built a set of pigsties and allotments on Play Close, which caused such uproar that it led to the Playclose Riots in 1848, in which these plots wer...
Melton Mowbray (/ ˈmɛltən ˈmoʊbri /) is a market town in the Melton district in Leicestershire, England, 19 miles (31 km) north-east of Leicester and 20 miles (32 km) south-east of Nottingham. It lies on the River Eye, known below Melton as the Wreake.
Melton Country Park is 140 acres of open green space just a ten minute walk from the town centre in Melton Mowbray. A haven for wildlife and an ideal place to get away from it all, it's perfect for walking, cycling, bird watching and family picnics.
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In the north east of Leicestershire, discover a wealth of local produce in the regional food capital of Melton Mowbray. Pork Pies and Stilton cheese are made here and at the heart of Melton’s appeal.
