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England - South Africa
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Melton Mowbray, My Home Town!
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| Welcome To My Site on My Home Town, Me and South Africa |
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A Brief History Of The Town
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| Melton Mowbray is in Framland Hundred, and gives name to a township, parish, poor law union, county court, petty sessional and local board district, and the celebrated Melton Hunt. It is a polling place for the northern division of the county, and has attained considerable celebrity for its manufacture of pork pies, and is a pleasant and well built market town, pleasantly seated on the banks of the small river Eye, in a fertile open vale, 15 miles N. E. of Leicester, 10 miles N.W. of Oakham, 16 miles S.W. of Grantham, and 105 miles N. N. W. of London. Melton Mowbray parish, which comprises the townships of Burton Lazars, Freeby, Melton Mowbray, Sysonby, and Welby, in 1871 contained 5559 persons, living in 1123 houses, on 10266 acres of land; of these, 5033 persons, 1020 houses, and about 3300 acres, were in Melton Mowbray township. The soil is generally a black sandy loam, inclining to clay, and having a plentiful substratum of gravel. It had only 1766 inhabitants in 1801, but in 1831 they had increased to 3327, in 1841 to 3740, in 1851 to 4434, and in 1861 to 4436. The return for 1871, given above included a number of persons visiting the steeple-chases, and also 126 paupers in the union workhouse. |
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A Few Pictures Of The Town
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