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Melton MowbrayMelton Mowbray or Melton is a town in the borough of Melton north-east Leicestershire, England. Melton Mowbray is best known for being the home of the Melton Mowbray pork pies, which are filled with sage-flecked, tiny chinks of pork, glistening in rich pork jelly, and encased in a freestanding, crisp, golden pastry crust. In addition to its culinary fame for pork pies, Stilton cheese originated in Melton Mowbray, and is still made in the town today. Stilton takes its name from the village of Stilton (though no Stilton was ever made there) 80 miles north of London. The town is also home to Melton cloth (first mentioned in 1823), which is the familiar tight-woven woollen cloth which is heavily milled, and a nap raised so as to form a short, dense, non-lustrous pile. Sailors' peacoats are traditionally made of Melton cloth, the universal workmans' donkey jackets of Britain and Ireland and in North America, loggers' "cruising jackets" and Mackinaws. The phrase "painting the town red is said to have originated in Melton when some young aristocrats up for the hunt went on a drunken spree in the 1800s and literally painted Melton town centre red. Melton Mowbray has been a market town for over 1,000 years. Recorded as Leicestershire's only market in the 1086 Doomsday Survey, it is the third oldest market in England. Tuesday has been market day ever since royal approval was given in 1324. It shares a member of Parliament (currently Alan Duncan from the Tories) with Rutland. Its museum famously displays a dead two-headed calf. There is also a Melton in Victoria, Australia.
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