For all Melton Mowbray's fame for making pork pies, and stilton there was really one thing that put the quiet market town on the map-hunting. Like it or not nothing else had such a singular impact on Melton Mowbray as their huntsman and their supporters.
Our first association with the sport started in the 1700s as it soon became fashionable to rent a house in Melton as it did to be seen as a society ball in London.
If all the towns and cities in the country were asked to put a plate of food they were famed for, could any of them match Melton Mowbray?
Probably not with pork pies, stilton cheese and hunt cake the town boasts a mouth watering collection of delicacies That have taken centuries to perfect.