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    Melton Mowbray (/ˈmɛltən ˈmoʊbri/) is a town in the Melton district in Leicestershire, England, 19 miles (31 km) north-east of Leicester, and 20 miles...
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    after baking. The Melton Mowbray pork pie is named after Melton Mowbray, a town in Leicestershire. While it is sometimes claimed that Melton pies became popular...
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    Melton is a local government district with borough status in north-eastern Leicestershire, England. It is named after its only town, Melton Mowbray. The...
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    Villages. The Borough of Melton. It includes the following areas: The whole of the Borough of Melton, including the town of Melton Mowbray, transferred from...
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    Melton Mowbray railway station serves the market town of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, England. It is owned by Network Rail and operated by East Midlands...
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    The Melton Mowbray Navigation was formed when the River Wreake in Leicestershire, England, was made navigable upstream from its junction with the River...
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  • Graham Chapman (category People from Melton Mowbray)
    Life of Brian (1979). Chapman was born in Leicester and was raised in Melton Mowbray. He enjoyed science, acting, and comedy and after graduating from Emmanuel...
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  • The Nottingham to Melton and Manton to Rushton route sections were closed in 1967, but the intermediate section between Melton Mowbray and Manton, part...
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  • The Melton Building Society is a building society based in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire in the East Midlands. It was established in 1875 and is one...
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    manufacturing centre. In agriculture the county is known for Stilton cheese and Melton Mowbray pork pies. Leicestershire was recorded in the Domesday Book (1086) in...
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  • 2016. "Melton Dig Deep To Win Back To Back Championships, With A Close Win Over Vipers". Melton Mowbray RFC (Pitchero). 9 April 2016. "Melton Crowned...
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    The Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Association is a group of pork pie manufacturers in the Melton Mowbray area of England, UK. The association was set up in 1998...
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    Clive Standen (category People from Melton Mowbray)
    to school at the King Edward VII School, Melton Mowbray followed by a performing arts course at Melton Mowbray College. Standen then went on to earn a...
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    boundary was expanded to include Melton. Like the overall local government area, Melton was named after Melton Mowbray in the United Kingdom. The land...
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    Melton Mowbray or more simply RAF Melton Mowbray is a former Royal Air Force station located 2.3 miles (3.7 km) south of the centre of Melton Mowbray...
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    for the East Midlands are taken by East Midlands Councils, based in Melton Mowbray. East Midlands Councils is an unelected body made up of representatives...
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    England, pork pies were being made in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire by the 1780s, according to the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Association (founded in 1998)...
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    Locomotives (including preserved and minor railway locomotives) (18EL ed.). Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, UK: Industrial Railway Society. 2019. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-912995-00-4...
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  • Melton Town Football Club is a football club based in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England. They are currently members of the United Counties League...
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  • Melton Mowbray is a locality and small rural community in the local government areas of Southern Midlands and Central Highlands, in the Midlands region...
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    main line of the Leicester Canal (between Cossington and Syston) to Melton Mowbray. The line was 15 miles (24 km) long and used the River Wreake for virtually...
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  • Act 1894 as a successor to the Melton Rural Sanitary District. It entirely surrounded, but did not include, Melton Mowbray Under the County Review Orders...
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  • Melton Mowbray Greyhound Stadium was a greyhound racing and Motorcycle speedway stadium located on the north side of Saxby Road, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire...
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    Rutland and Melton was a county constituency spanning Leicestershire and Rutland, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom...
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  • Animal Training Regiment (DATR) is a training establishment, based in Melton Mowbray, east Leicestershire. It trains animals, of which the most numerous...
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    Park and Melton Mowbray is known as the River Eye and becomes the Wreake below Melton Mowbray. It flows southwest, passing through Melton Mowbray, Asfordby...
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  • Incorporated specializing in pet food, with factories in England at Melton Mowbray and Birstall, Leeds; and offices at McLean, Virginia. In 1934, Mars...
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    Louise Doughty (category People from the Borough of Melton)
    Good Read in 1998 to 2001. Doughty was born on 4 September 1963 in Melton Mowbray and grew up in Oakham, Rutland. She attended Oakham School and is an...
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  • Melton was a county constituency centred on the town of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons...
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  • most of Leicestershire (including Leicester, Loughborough, Hinckley, Melton Mowbray, Coalville, Market Harborough, Ashby de la Zouch, Lutterworth, Wigston...
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