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
The Melton Building Society Melton is a mutual organisation owned by its more than 40,000 members. The Society is a member of the Building Societies Association. The Melton Building Society The Melton is a building society based in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire in the East Midlands. The Melton was established in 1875 and is one of the oldest surviving building societies in the United Kingdom with over 65,000 members. It provides mortgages, savings, insurance and investment products from its principal office and three branches in Melton Mowbray, Oakham and Grantham. The society has a subsidiary, named MBS Lending Limited, which provides mortgage finance to customers