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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.
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 ...
Broughton and Old Dalby is a civil parish in the Melton district of Leicestershire, England. [1] According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,400, rising marginally to 1,405 at the 2011 census.
The hillfort stands on a promontory around 660 feet (200 m) above sea level, 7 miles (11 km) south of the modern settlement of Melton Mowbray. [3] In 1931 the parish had a population of 214. The village's name means 'fortification on the hill'. Though later forms of Old English show that it could mean 'the earthen fortification on the hill'. [4]
It would pass some distance north of Melton Mowbray, and generally duplicate the Melton to Saxby section of the existing Peterborough line. The "Manton and Rushton Line" was a route 14 miles long between Manton on the Syston and Peterborough Railway, and Rushton on the Midland Main Line, north of Kettering. Included in the proposals was a spur ...
The Old Dalby Test Track is a railway in the United Kingdom which is used for testing new designs of trains and railway infrastructure. It runs between Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire and Edwalton, on the course of the Midland Railway's route between Kettering and Nottingham which closed to passengers on 1 May 1967, [1] and to goods in 1968.
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In the first years of the twentieth century it was decided to install goods loops between Melton Mowbray and Brentingby Junction. These were commissioned on 4 December 1904. The line was straight and level at Brentingby so it was an ideal place to install water troughs , which was done on all four tracks, coming into use on 3 May 1905.