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In the mid-19th century, a group of local businessmen decided to form a private company, known as the "Melton Mowbray Corn Exchange and Public Rooms Company", to finance and commission a purpose-built corn exchange for the town. The site they selected was on the east side of Nottingham Street. [2]
Melton Mowbray contains a rare example of early town government. The Melton Mowbray Town Estate [25] was founded in 1549, during the Reformation, when two townsfolk sold silver and plate sequestered from the church and bought land to be held in trust for all inhabitants. It provided early forms of education and the first street lighting, and ...
Melton Mowbray appears to have become the Eye basin's trading centre in Saxon times. Its market probably predates the Norman conquest and is one of the few in England listed in the Domesday Book (1085). Melton continues as the main trading centre in the area throughout medieval times, up to the present day.
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On June 15, 2022, the city of Indianapolis announced plans to replace the east wing of the market that had been added in the 1980s with an 11-story, 60-unit apartment building that includes 8,000 square feet (740 m 2) of office space and 22,000 square feet (2,000 m 2) of retail space. The $175 million project will also include converting the ...
Samworth Brothers' head office fronts two food manufacturing plants on the A607 Dickinson and Morris pie shop, Melton Mowbray. Samworth Brothers is a British food manufacturer which produces a range of chilled and ambient foods, both own-label and branded.
When first created in 1974 the council inherited offices at Egerton Lodge on Wilton Road from Melton Mowbray Urban District Council and at Warwick Lodge on Dalby Road from Melton and Belvoir Rural District Council. [21] In 1986 the council moved to a new building called Council Offices on Nottingham Road. [22]