Solar Farming in Melton Mowbray

Solar & farming around Melton Mowbray

Melton Mowbray, in Leicestershire, sits within East Midlands — a part of the country shaped by generations of farming across fenland, river valleys and large open arable fields. Like much of the region, the land around Melton Mowbray has long been worked for arable and livestock, and that agricultural character still defines the countryside beyond the town today.

It is exactly this kind of farmland that makes Melton Mowbray and its surrounding parishes well suited to solar farming. Open fields, established field boundaries and a working relationship with the land mean that, where grid capacity allows, solar farms and agrivoltaic schemes can sit comfortably alongside continued agriculture — adding a stable income without taking the land out of the farming community.