| Michelmersh | |
|---|---|
 St Mary's Church, Michelmersh | |
  Michelmersh Location within Hampshire | |
| Population | 735 [1] 881 (2011 Census including Kimbridge)[2] |
| OS grid reference | SU346261 |
| Civil parish | |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | ROMSEY |
| Postcode district | SO51 |
| Dialling code | 01794 |
| Police | Hampshire and Isle of Wight |
| Fire | Hampshire and Isle of Wight |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| UK Parliament | |
Michelmersh is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Michelmersh and Timsbury, in the Test Valley district, in the county of Hampshire, England. It is 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Romsey.
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 [3] and was for many years the home of Sir David and Lady Carina Frost.[4]
The parish is located to the east of the River Test on the northern edge of the Hampshire Basin, with chalk in the north.[5] 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.[5] It has a brick and tile works,[6] 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'.[7]
- ^ "Parish Headcounts, Area: Michelmersh CP (includes Timsbury)". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. 2001. Retrieved 28 February 2008.
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for Natgional Statistics. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
- ^ British Listed Buildings: Michelmersh Court
- ^ "For sale: the stunning Hampshire home of Sir David Frost". Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2 March 2013.
- ^ a b British Geological Survey, 2002, England & Wales Sheet 299: Winchester, 1:50,000 Geology Series, Keyworth, Nottingham:British Geological Survey, ISBN 0-7518-3340-1
- ^ "Michelmersh Brick and Tile Company". Archived from the original on 20 June 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
- ^ Mills, A.D: A Dictionary of English Place-Names, page 229. Oxford University Press, 1991.