Map and Guide Melton Mowbray

Melton Mowbray map, view the Leicestershire town of Melton Mowbray, north-east of Leicester.

Detailed Street Map of Melton Mowbray Leicestershire

Melton Mowbray Map Leicestershire: Interactive, google map of Melton Mowbray, displaying the town situated to the north-east of Leicester in Leicestershire, Central England, United Kingdom.

Use controls to display a detailed street map of Melton Mowbray or get a Melton Mowbray town centre map, showing the Melton Carnegie Museum, the St Mary's Parish Church, and Melton Mowbray Railway Station.

Also on this Melton Mowbray map are Potters Hill, Welby, Thorpe Arnold, Bretingby, Ashfordby Hill, Eye Kettleby, Burton Lazars and the Twinlakes Park.

A small market town to the north east of Leicester in Leicestershire, Melton Mowbray is most famous for its pork pies and its stilton cheese. Having a population of about 25,000, Melton Mowbray is still one of Leicestershire's largest towns, it is also an ancient place with a history going back to the Bronze and Iron Ages.

Possibly the site of an encampment during Roman times, it was certainly settled by the Saxons and the Danes, before the time of the Norman invasion. In the Domesday Book (1086) it was recorded as the only market town in Leicestershire, and is in fact the 3rd oldest in England.

While in Melton Mowbray visit the Melton Carnegie Museum, Twinlakes Park, and the Melton Mowbray Country Park.

Melton Mowbray can be accessed by way of the A606 and the A607, it is about 17 miles from Leicester, and a driving distance of 120 miles from London.

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