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
Melton Mowbray which is a tight-woven woollen cloth that is heavily milled, and a nap raised so as to form a short, dense, non-lustrous pile. Sailors' pea coats are traditionally made of Melton cloth, as are the universal workmans' donkey jackets of Britain and Ireland, and in North America, loggers' "cruising jackets" and Mackinaws. Melton shares a member of parliament (currently Alan Duncan from the Conservatives) with Rutland, which together form the appropriately named "Rutland and Melton" parliamentary constituency. Melton Mowbray is home to a rare example of early town government. The Melton Mowbray Town Estate was founded at the time of