Melton Mowbray 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 of the six homes of Stilton cheese. Melton Mowbray is promoted as the "Rural Capital of Food". The name comes from the early English word Medeltone – meaning "Middletown surrounded by small hamlets" (and therefore has the same origin as Milton and Middleton). Mowbray is a Norman
Branston, Leicestershire Branston, Leicestershire Branston is a village in the civil parish of Croxton Kerrial and Branston, in Leicestershire, England. It is geographically situated north from the A607 road, south-west from Grantham and 7 miles north-east from Melton Mowbray. The village is at the southern edge of the Vale of Belvoir, and south-west from Belvoir Castle. Knipton Reservoir is to the north. The population is included in the civil parish of Croxton Kerrial. According to "A Dictionary of British Place Names", Branston could be "a farmstead or a village of a man called Brant" – 'Brant' from an Old English person name