Bottesford & Breedon-on-the-Hill in Leicestershire. Bottesford is a village in the Melton district of Leicestershire, England. It lies about 20 miles east of Nottingham and 16 miles north of Melton Mowbray. The village is the largest in the Vale of Belvoir and is near to Belvoir Castle, home to the Duke and Dutchess of Rutland. The civil parish of Bottesford also includes the outlying villages of Normanton and Muston, and borders parishes in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, nearby places being Sedgebrook (in Lincs), Elton (in Notts), and Redmile (in Leics). The village was built around the river Devon (Dee-von) and was named because of the ford at the centre of the village. The village has a large medieval church, St. Mary's, which has the highest spire in Leicestershire (at 212 feet tall) and is the burial place of the Dukes of Rutland. Bottesford Parish includes the villages of Bottesford, Easthorpe, Muston and Normanton.