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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 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 ...
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.
In the mid-19th century, a group of local businessmen decided to form a private company, known as the "Melton Mowbray Corn Exchange and Public Rooms Company", to finance and commission a purpose-built corn exchange for the town. The site they selected was on the east side of Nottingham Street. [2]
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 ...
It is 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (8.9 km) south of Melton Mowbray. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 812. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 812. Somerby is a small country village containing a parish church (All Saints), a primary school, a Doctor's surgery , a pub, a small shop/post office, and a large ...
The Fray Bentos brand is known for the manufacture and sale in the United Kingdom of a range of tinned meat pies such as steak and kidney and minced beef and onion. [1] [2] Since 2011, the brand in the UK has been owned by Baxters, who manufacture Fray Bentos products at their site at Fochabers in Scotland. [3]
Melton Carnegie Museum 52°45′52.71″N 0°52′51.52″W / 52.7646417°N 0.8809778°W / 52.7646417; -0.8809778 The Melton Carnegie Museum is a museum in Melton Mowbray , Leicestershire , England, which documents the history of the market