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Melton Mowbray

/ ˈmɛltən ˈməʊbrɪ /

noun

  1. a town in central England, in Leicestershire: pork pies and Stilton cheese. Pop: 25 554 (2001)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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If your pork pie is not from the Leicestershire town, it cannot be called a Melton Mowbray.

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Raynor Winn, a writer who grew up on a farm in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, said a financial dispute meant she had lost her dream home in Wales in 2013 just days after her husband Moth was diagnosed with Corticobasal Degeneration, a rare brain disease.

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The centre, which is nestled among farmland outside Melton Mowbray in rural Leicestershire, is also home of the foundation set up in Hampson's name.

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The fusion pie, made by Boghall Butchers of Bathgate in West Lothian, was crowned supreme champion at the event in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.

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"It would not have affected anybody currently producing Melton Mowbray pork pies," he added.

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