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
Harston, Leicestershire Road. The engine shed has been removed and re-erected at Rutland Railway Museum, Cottesmore, Rutland. The last two steam locomotives are used on preserved railways. Harston is served by three weekday buses a day between Melton Mowbray and Grantham. Grantham is the nearest railway station (6.1 miles, 9.8 km). The main A607 road between Melton Mowbray and Grantham runs to the south of the village. Harston, Leicestershire Harston is a crossroads village in Leicestershire, England, near the border with Lincolnshire. The nearest town is Grantham, about to the north-east. It forms part of the civil parish of Belvoir, which in