Sysonby Lodge - Melton Mowbray

03 | GRACEHOMES.CO.UK Melton Mowbray Railway Station - 2 miles Grantham - 17 Miles Leicester - 17 miles Nottingham - 19 miles M1 North (J23) - 18 miles M1 South (J21A) - 22 miles East Midlands Airport - 23 miles Peterborough - 37 miles London (via A1) - 114 miles Approximate driving distances from Sysonby Lodge Tucked away down a private road only a mile fromMelton Mowbray, a home at Sysonby Lodge brings you an enviable lifestyle in a historic location that’s ideally placed for commuting, schools, shopping and leisure. Sysonby Lodge is a Grade II listed building, which has been incorporated into the development and lends a sense of exclusivity within its wider surroundings. With sweeping views across private parkland, you could be in the heart of the countryside, and yet you are just a few minutes from the town of Melton Mowbray and within easy commuting distance of Leicester and Nottingham. The rolling landscape of the Vale of Belvoir is on your doorstep, and the surrounding area boasts several pretty country villages with ancient churches and cosy pubs. Melton Mowbray itself is a delightful market town which has styled itself as Britain’s Rural Capital of Food. Everyone’s familiar with its eponymous Pork Pies and Stilton Cheese, but artisan food and drink are plentiful and readily available at an award-winning bakery and brewery as well as the regular farmers’ market. For local primary schools, St Mary’s is less than a mile from the development and there are more good schools in Ab Kettleby and Melton Mowbray as well as two well-regarded secondary schools and an ‘outstanding’ 6th form college. The independent Loughborough High and Grammar Schools, Oakham School and Ratcliffe College are all within 20 miles of Sysonby Lodge. In your free time, you could enjoy visiting the impressive Belvoir Castle, gardens and parkland near Grantham, ancestral home of the Dukes of Rutland and the stand-in for Windsor Castle in the well-known series, ‘The Crown’. Slightly further afield, take in some hiking, fishing or bird-spotting at Rutland Water, with its 1,000-acre nature reserve and equally impressive reservoir - the largest man-made lake in the UK. If you’re looking to create some of your own family history Sysonby Lodge is the perfect place to do it.