Michelmersh
| Michelmersh | |
| Hampshire | |
|---|---|
 St Mary's Church, Michelmersh | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU346261 |
| Location: | 51°1’60"N, 1°30’29"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 735 (2001[1]) |
| Post town: | Romsey |
| Postcode: | SO51 |
| Dialling code: | 01794 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Test Valley |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Romsey |
Michelmersh is a small, scattered village and ancient parish in Hampshire some three miles north of Romsey. The villages of Awbridge and Braishfield form separate civil parishes, and the remainder forms a civil parish with Timsbury.
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]
In popular culture
Michelmersh is known for being one of the main locations for the filming of the 1980s British TV series Worzel Gummidge. Other locations include nearby villages of Stockbridge, King's Somborne and Braishfield.[7]
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Gallery
Church Road, Michelmersh
Michelmersh brickworks
Casbrook Common
References
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ British Listed Buildings: Michelmersh Court
- ↑ "For sale: the stunning Hampshire home of Sir David Frost". Daily Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/buyingsellingandmoving/9899668/For-sale-the-stunning-Hampshire-home-of-Sir-David-Frost.html.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ "Michelmersh Brick and Tile Company". http://www.michelmersh.co.uk/home. Retrieved 2013-05-19.
- ↑ Mills, A.D: A Dictionary of English Place-Names, page 229. Oxford University Press, 1991.
- ↑ "Worzel Gummidge (TV)". 3 March 2016. http://www3.hants.gov.uk/filmhampshire/filmhampshire-locations/filmhantsearch/filmhantsdetail.htm?id=K007.
