English market town known as the country’s ‘rural food capital’ with the world’s first pork pie museum

WHILE the festive play mightiness person travel to an end, the country's obsession with pork pies and stilton food shows nary motion of wavering.

Located successful Leicestershire, the marketplace municipality of Melton Mowbray is often promoted arsenic the country's Rural Capital of Food acknowledgment to its ties to Pork Pies and Stilton Cheese.

The world-famous Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe started beingness arsenic a bakery.

It was opened by John Dickinson successful the mid-19th period who was pursuing successful the his family's footsteps.

John's grandmother, Mary Dickinson, is credited with creating the precise archetypal Melton Mowbray Pork Pie.

Mary utilized a woody dolly to rise the pastry earlier adding jelly to support the nutrient inside, with the municipality making the 'picky bit' ever since.

Following a revamp past year, Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe has a conception dedicated to educating visitors connected the history of pork pies.

The show includes historical artefacts and archive photography.

Another pork pastry show besides exists successful Melton Carnegie Museum.

Housed wrong Melton's erstwhile Carnegie Library, the depository opened successful the 1970s and depicts the past of the town.

Melton Mowbray is besides the centre of the accumulation of Stilton cheese successful the UK.

While the origins of the creamy, blue-speckled, food are disputed, it is thought it was made successful the country astir Melton Mowbray successful the 18th century.

Melton Mowbray besides hosts a farmer's marketplace connected the 3rd Friday of the month, truthful there's plentifulness of support foodies occupied.

Aside from its ties to food, Melton Mowbray is besides wherever Saxon coins were minted during the reign of King Aethelred II.

It's adjacent wherever Edward VIII, the erstwhile King of England, and Wallis Simpson met.

Other adjacent attractions see Twinlakes Park, dubbed the champion amusement parkland successful the East of England.

The amusement park has an indoor play country with slides, a play palace, a reflector maze and family-friendly coasters.

Entry tickets commencement from £19.99 per person.

There's besides Melton Country Park, which has implicit 140 acres of unfastened greenish space.

Melton Mowbray is simply a 90 infinitesimal thrust from Birmingham and it's a 45 infinitesimal thrust from Leicester.

The fairytale municipality of Knaresborough is besides thought to beryllium large this twelvemonth too, and was erstwhile fashionable with royal staycationers.

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