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
Hose, Leicestershire late Saxon period. Hose was cited as "Hoches" and "Howes" in the Domesday Book of 1086. Hose, Leicestershire Hose is a village in the English county of Leicestershire, within the Borough of Melton. The population is about 500. The town of Melton Mowbray is six miles (10 km) to the south. Forming part of the civil parish of Clawson, Hose and Harby, Hose is in the far north-east of the county, in the Vale of Belvoir. It lies close to the route of the defunct Grantham Canal, which has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest and underwent a