Melton Mowbray to one rugby club aptly named Melton Rugby club who compete in Midlands 3 East. The town has its own Sunday Football League in which some 15 teams compete every Sunday. Asfordby Hill is home to Holwell Sports who play in the Leicestershire Senior League premier division. Melton Mowbray Melton Mowbray () is a town in Leicestershire, England, northeast of Leicester, and southeast of Nottingham. The town is on the River Eye and the River Wreake and has a population of 25,554. The town is best known for its culinary speciality, the Melton Mowbray pork pie, and it is one
Melton Mowbray railway station by no later than 2012 will not go ahead in the original timescale. From Melton Mowbray there is an hourly service off-peak in both directions operated by CrossCountry. Westbound, trains run to Birmingham via , and Coleshill. Eastbound, trains run to via , Ely and . Additional trains run at peak times, with some terminating at Cambridge. Although the next station westbound is , there are no direct services between the two stations. Despite managing the station, East Midlands Trains (EMT) only operates a limited number of services to the station. A single daily return service to London St Pancras