Michelmersh
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| Population | 735 [1] |
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| OS grid reference | SU346261 |
| Civil parish | Michelmersh & Timsbury |
| District | Test Valley |
| Shire county | Hampshire |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | ROMSEY |
| Postcode district | SO51 |
| Dialling code | 01794 |
| Police | Hampshire |
| Fire | Hampshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | Romsey |
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Michelmersh is a small, scattered village in Hampshire, England some three miles (4.8 km) north of Romsey.
It forms a civil parish with Timsbury that forms part of the Test Valley district. The Monarch's Way long-distance footpath crosses the parish, passing through the churchyard of the 12th century St Mary's Church. The Georgian former rectory, Michelmersh Court, is Grade II* listed [2] and was for many years the home of Sir David and Lady Carina Frost.[3]
The parish is located to the east of the River Test on the northern edge of the Hampshire Basin, with chalk in the north.[4] To the south and east of the village this is overlain by Palaeocene sands and clays of the Lambeth Group. At the southern are younger deposits of Eocene age, sloping from a ridge of the Nursling sands into a valley of London Clay.[4] It has a brick and tile works,[5] and extensive former sand pits on Casbrook Common, now used as a landfill site.
The name Michelmersh is derived from the Old English micel + mersc, meaning ' large marsh'.[6]
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Church Road, Michelmersh
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Michelmersh brickworks
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Casbrook Common
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References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ British Listed Buildings: Michelmersh Court
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 British Geological Survey, 2002, England & Wales Sheet 299: Winchester, 1:50,000 Geology Series, Keyworth, Nottingham:British Geological Survey, ISBN 0-7518-3340-1
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Mills, A.D: A Dictionary of English Place-Names, page 229. Oxford University Press, 1991.
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