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Melton Mowbray contains a rare example of early town government. The Melton Mowbray Town Estate [31] 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 ...
Works of art in the building include a painting by John Ferneley depicting the Melton Mowbray Horse Fair. [11] The building also contains a large collection of modern art collected by a former director of education, Stewart C. Mason. [12] The Lord-Lieutenant's Young Person of the Year Awards are held annually at County Hall. [13]
Melton is a local government district with borough status in north-eastern Leicestershire, England.It is named after its only town, Melton Mowbray.The borough also includes numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.
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. [13] Food processing in the city and county includes popular British fish and chip shop pie Pukka Pies who are based in Syston.
George Mountford, Huntsman to the Quorn, and W. Derry, Whipper-In, at John O'Gaunt's Gorse, near Melton Mowbray by Richard Barrett Davis, 1836. Richard Barrett Davis RBA (1782–1854) was an animal and landscape painter. [1] Davis was born at Watford in 1782.
A range of outdoor, equestrian and country fashion that is designed in-house and manufactured mostly in the United Kingdom.The first Rydale products were imported in 2001 (then known as Snow Drop) and since then it has become the largest clothing operation on trade show circuits around the UK, with over 140 shows attended.
Melton and Syston (UK Parliament constituency) Melton Carnegie Museum; St Mary's Church, Melton Mowbray; Melton Mowbray North railway station; Melton Mowbray pork pie; Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Association; Melton Mowbray railway station; RAF Melton Mowbray; Melton Town F.C. Melton Vale Post 16 Centre; Robert de Mowbray
Scalford is situated on the Jubilee Way footpath from Melton Mowbray to Belvoir Castle, and is a 'stop off' for walkers between Melton and the Vale of Belvoir. Scalford can be reached from Melton or the Vale by regular buses, and there is more than adequate parking at the village hall, which is overseen by nearby houses, and quiet roads ...