Melton Mowbray
Melton Mowbray, usually referred to locally as just Melton, is a market town in the county of Leicestershire, England. It is famous for the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie and as the centre of Stilton Cheese production.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 27,200 residents
- Description: town in Leicestershire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Melton” and “Melton-Mowbray”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Melton Mowbray railway station and Melton Carnegie Museum.
Melton Mowbray railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Melton Mowbray railway station serves the market town of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, England. It is owned by Network Rail and operated by East Midlands Railway, though CrossCountry operates most of the services as part of its Birmingham New Street to Stansted Airport route.
Melton Carnegie Museum
Museum
Photo: Brian Green, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Melton Carnegie Museum is a museum in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England, which documents the history of the market town. It is managed by Leicestershire County Council and supported by Melton Borough Council and is Heritage Lottery Funded.
Egerton Park
Park
Egerton Park is a cricket ground in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. The land for the park was purchased from the Egerton Lodge Estate by the Melton Mowbray Town Estate in 1931.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thorpe Arnold and Burton Lazars.
Thorpe Arnold
Village
Photo: Dave Kelly, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thorpe Arnold is a farming village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Waltham on the Wolds and Thorpe Arnold in the district of Melton, which is approximately 1.2 miles northeast of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, England.
Burton Lazars
Village
Photo: Kev747, Public domain.
Burton Lazars is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Burton and Dalby, in the Melton district, in the county of Leicestershire, England.
Asfordby Hill
Village
Asfordby Hill is a hamlet on the A6006 road, in the parish of Asfordby, in the Melton district, in the county of Leicestershire, England.
Melton Mowbray
- Categories: unparished area and locality
- Location: Melton District, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.7646° or 52° 45′ 52″ northLongitude
-0.8869° or 0° 53′ 13″ westPopulation
27,200Elevation
259 feet (79 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB MBYOpen location code
9C4XQ477+R6OpenStreetMap ID
node 26679128OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Melton Mowbray” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Melton Mowbray”
- Basque: “Melton Mowbray”
- Bulgarian: “Мелтън Моубрей”
- Cebuano: “Melton Mowbray”
- Chinese: “梅尔顿莫布雷”
- Chinese: “梅爾頓莫布雷”
- Dutch: “Melton Mowbray”
- French: “Melton Mowbray”
- German: “Melton Mowbray”
- Hebrew: “מלטון מאובריי”
- Irish: “Melton Mowbray”
- Italian: “Melton Mowbray”
- Japanese: “メルトン・マウブレー”
- Japanese: “メルトン・モーブレー”
- Japanese: “メルトン・モウブリー”
- Ladin: “Melton Mowbray”
- Latvian: “Meltonmobri”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Melton Mowbray”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melton Mowbray”
- Norwegian: “Melton Mowbray”
- Persian: “ملتون موبری”
- Polish: “Melton Mowbray”
- Portuguese: “Melton Mowbray”
- Romanian: “Melton Mowbray”
- Russian: “Мелтон-Мобрей”
- Russian: “Мелтон-Моубрей”
- South Azerbaijani: “ملتون موبری”
- Spanish: “Melton Mowbray”
- Swedish: “Melton Mowbray”
- Urdu: “میلٹن موبرے”
- Volapük: “Melton Mowbray”
- Welsh: “Melton Mowbray”
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