Michelmersh

Coordinates: 51°02′00″N 1°30′29″W / 51.03323°N 1.50794°W / 51.03323; -1.50794

Michelmersh
St Mary's Church, Michelmersh
Michelmersh  Michelmersh shown within Hampshire
Population	735 [1]
OS grid reference	SU346261
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
List of places: UK • England • Hampshire

Michelmersh is a small, scattered village in Hampshire, England some three miles 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 parish is located to the east of the River Test on the northern edge of the Hampshire Basin, with chalk in the north overlain by clays and sands of the Lambeth Group to the south.^[2] It has a brick and tile works, 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'^[3].

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  Church Road, Michelmersh

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  Michelmersh brickworks

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  Casbrook Common

External links

• Details
• Michelmersh and Timsbury parish

References

1. ^ "Parish Headcounts, Area: Michelmersh CP (includes Timsbury)". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. 2001. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=795165&c=Michelmersh&d=16&e=15&g=452828&i=1001x1003x1004&k=Stockbridge&o=1&m=0&r=1&s=1204207656421&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779. Retrieved 2008-02-28. 
2. ^ British Geological Survey, 2002, England & Wales Sheet 299: Winchester, 1:50,000 Geology Series, Keyworth, Nottingham:British Geological Survey, ISBN 07518-3340-1
3. ^ Mills, A.D: A Dictionary of English Place-Names, page 229. Oxford University Press, 1991.