Melling
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Melling , is the name of several places in England and one in New Zealand. The name was once used on a locomotive. Melling originates from the Anglo-saxon roots for "The homestead of Maella", (or Malla), first settled in Lancashire, England by Maella's family in the 6th century CE. As a surname it derives from the places in England, and is also found in fiction as character names and place names.
- Melling is a village in Sefton, Merseyside, England
- Melling Mount is a hamlet in Sefton, Merseyside, England
- Melling is a village in Carnforth, Lancashire, England
- Melling is a suburb of Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
- Melling was the name of a GWR Hawthorn Class 2-4-0 locomotive.
- Harry Melling of Melling Engine Parts [1] sponsored NASCAR Racing, and was inducted into the Michigan Motor Sports Hall of Fame in 2004.[2]
- Actor Harry Melling [3] was Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter films. He is grandson of actor Patrick Troughton [4]the second actor to portray The Doctor on the long running British Science Fiction television series Doctor Who
- Philip H. Melling, (Ph.D. Manchester), is the founding head of the American Studies Faculty, University of Wales, Swansea, [5](Literature, contemporary ethnic writing).
- O.R. Melling is the pen-name of G.V. Whelan [6]
- Actor Sir Michael Caine played Victor Melling in the film Miss Congeniality [7]
- Margaret Biggs is the author of the Melling School series of books for girls in the 1950s, 1960s and reprinted in the 2000s.
- Robin Kleinis the author of All in the Blue Unclouded Weather. This is a collection of interlinked nostalgic stories set in a late 1940s Australian country town, which focus on the four young Melling sisters: Vivienne, Cathy, Heather, and Grace.
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