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
Borough of Melton small villages within the surrounding rural area and the area of the Borough is 48,138ha. The population of the Borough at 2011 was 50,376 (2011 Census) and the population is predicted to grow to 53,600 by 2021 It was formed in 1974, from the Melton Mowbray Urban District and the Melton and Belvoir Rural District. The council offices on "Nottingham Road" burnt down on 30 May 2008. Across the road were situated the main offices of the East Midlands Regional Assembly before it was abolished in 2010. The borough is the home of Stilton Cheese and Melton Mowbray Pork Pies.