Melton was a

rural district Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the Ad ...

Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

from 1894 to 1935. It was created in 1894 under the

Local Government Act 1894 The Local Government Act 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales outside the County of London. The Act followed the reforms carried out at county level un ...

as a successor to the

Melton Rural Sanitary District Melton may refer to: Places * Melton, Victoria, a satellite city outside Melbourne, Australia ** Electoral district of Melton, the Victorian Legislative Assembly electorate based on Melton ** Melton, Victoria (suburb), a suburb of Melton **Melton ...

. It entirely surrounded, but did not include, Melton Mowbray Under the County Review Orders of the 1930s it was merged with the

Belvoir Rural District Belvoir was a rural district in Leicestershire, England from 1894 to 1935. It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 from the part of the Grantham Rural Sanitary District that was in Leicestershire. It was a small district, named afte ...

to form a larger

Melton and Belvoir Rural District Melton may refer to: Places * Melton, Victoria, a satellite city outside Melbourne, Australia ** Electoral district of Melton, the Victorian Legislative Assembly electorate based on Melton ** Melton, Victoria (suburb), a suburb of Melton **Melton ...

, with

Eye Kettleby Eyes are organs of the visual system. They provide living organisms with vision, the ability to receive and process visual detail, as well as enabling several photo response functions that are independent of vision. Eyes detect light and conve ...

and parts of other parishes going to Melton Mowbray Urban District.

References

*https://web.archive.org/web/20071001015833/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10220713 {{coord, 52.8, -0.9, region:GB, display=title History of Leicestershire Local government in Leicestershire Districts of England created by the Local Government Act 1894 Rural districts of England