Michelmersh

Michelmersh

St Mary's Church, Michelmersh
Michelmersh
 Michelmersh shown within Hampshire
Population 735 [1]
OS grid referenceSU346261
Civil parishMichelmersh & Timsbury
DistrictTest Valley
Shire countyHampshire
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town ROMSEY
Postcode district SO51
Dialling code 01794
Police Hampshire
Fire Hampshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
UK ParliamentRomsey
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Coordinates: 51°02′00″N 1°30′29″W / 51.03323°N 1.50794°W / 51.03323; -1.50794

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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References

  1. ↑ "Parish Headcounts, Area: Michelmersh CP (includes Timsbury)". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. 2001. Retrieved 2008-02-28.
  2. ↑ British Listed Buildings: Michelmersh Court
  3. ↑ "For sale: the stunning Hampshire home of Sir David Frost". Daily Telegraph.
  4. 1 2 British Geological Survey, 2002, England & Wales Sheet 299: Winchester, 1:50,000 Geology Series, Keyworth, Nottingham:British Geological Survey, ISBN 0-7518-3340-1
  5. ↑ "Michelmersh Brick and Tile Company". Retrieved 2013-05-19.
  6. ↑ Mills, A.D: A Dictionary of English Place-Names, page 229. Oxford University Press, 1991.


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