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Melton Mowbray contains a rare example of early town government. The Melton Mowbray Town Estate [25] was founded in 1549, during the Reformation, when two townsfolk sold silver and plate sequestered from the church and bought land to be held in trust for all inhabitants. It provided early forms of education and the first street lighting, and ...
The Leicestershire County Show is held on the first Bank Holiday in May each year and includes animal showings, trade exhibitions, and show jumping. Melton Mowbray Market is an important regional livestock market. Field sports remain an important part of the rural economy of Leicestershire, with stables, kennels, and gunsmiths based in the county.
Melton Mowbray pork pie: PGI (UK, EU) 2008 Limited to products produced using a traditional recipe and within the vicinity of Melton Mowbray. [25] New Forest Pannage Ham: PGI (UK) 2023 Limited to ham made from pigs which were released in New Forest in the year before they were slaughtered and where they eat acorns and beech mast. The ham is ...
Later in the station's (brief) history, passengers were allowed to alight here, with trains stopping here only on Wednesdays and Saturdays to serve the cattle market. [2] No platform was ever built to serve the southbound line. The station was closed on 6 February 1918.
Farming and food production are the main industries with Pedigree Petfoods in Melton, and its Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition at Waltham on the Wolds. There is a large creamery (Long Clawson Dairy) at Long Clawson. Samworth Brothers are headquartered in Melton. The Royal Army Veterinary Corps and Defence Animal Training Regiment are also in ...
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Melton Mowbray appears to have become the Eye basin's trading centre in Saxon times. Its market probably predates the Norman conquest and is one of the few in England listed in the Domesday Book (1085). Melton continues as the main trading centre in the area throughout medieval times, up to the present day.
The viaduct at John o' Gaunt. By the Great Northern and London and North-western Railways Joint Powers and New Lines Act of 30 July 1874, the GNR and the LNWR were authorised to build 45 miles (72 km) of railway between Market Harborough and Nottingham, together with branches to connect the two companies' lines; included in which were portions of the Newark and Melton line, and of the Melton ...