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Mitchelmersh

Michelmersh
St Marys Church Michelmersh.jpg
St Mary's Church, Michelmersh
Michelmersh is located in Hampshire
Michelmersh
Michelmersh
Michelmersh shown within Hampshire
Population 735 
881 (2011 Census including Kimbridge)
OS grid reference SU346261
Civil parish
  • Michelmersh & Timsbury
District
Shire county
Region
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
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UK
England
Hampshire
51°02′00″N 1°30′29″W / 51.03323°N 1.50794°W / 51.03323; -1.50794Coordinates: 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 and was for many years the home of Sir David and Lady Carina Frost.

The parish is located to the east of the River Test on the northern edge of the Hampshire Basin, with chalk in the north. 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. 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'.

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 , King's Somborne and Braishfield.

Church Road, Michelmersh

Michelmersh brickworks

Casbrook Common



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