Place:Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England

Watchers
NameMelton Mowbray
Alt namesMedeltonesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 162
Melton-Mowbraysource: Family History Library Catalog
TypeParish (ancient), Civil parish, Urban district
Coordinates52.767°N 0.883°W
Located inLeicestershire, England
See alsoFramland Hundred, Leicestershire, Englandhundred in which the parish was included
Melton District, Leicestershire, England|district municipality covering the area since 1974
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Melton Mowbray is a town in Leicestershire, England, north-east of Leicester, and south-east of Nottingham. It lies on the River Eye, known below Melton as the Wreake. The town population of 27,158 in the 2011 census was estimated at 27,670 in 2019. The town is sometimes promoted as Britain's "Rural Capital of Food". Melton's culinary specialities are Stilton cheese and the Melton Mowbray pork pie. It is also the location of one of six licensed makers of Stilton itself.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Melton Mowbray.

Research Tips

Maps on the place-pages for Belvoir Rural District and Melton and Belvoir Rural District illustrate the location of the various parishes and the geographical and administrative changes that occurred in 1936.

This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original content was at Melton Mowbray. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with WeRelate, the content of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.