Michelmersh

{{Short description|Village and parish in Hampshire, England}}

{{Use British English|date=November 2024}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Infobox UK place

|country = England

|coordinates = {{coord|51.03323|-1.50794|display=inline,title}}

|official_name= Michelmersh

| static_image_name= St Marys Church Michelmersh.jpg

| static_image_width= 200

| static_image_caption= St Mary's Church, Michelmersh

| population = 735

| population_ref = {{cite web |url=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 |title=Parish Headcounts, Area: Michelmersh CP (includes Timsbury)|work=Neighbourhood Statistics |publisher=Office for National Statistics |year=2001|access-date=2008-02-28}}
881 (2011 Census including Kimbridge){{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11126519&c=SO51+0LE&d=16&e=62&g=6431875&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=0&s=1482331957910&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|access-date=21 December 2016|publisher=Office for Natgional Statistics |work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}

|shire_district= Test Valley

|shire_county = Hampshire

|region= South East England

|constituency_westminster= Romsey and Southampton North

| civil_parish= Michelmersh and Timsbury

|post_town= ROMSEY

|postcode_area= SO

|postcode_district= SO51

|dial_code= 01794

|os_grid_reference= SU346261

}}

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 ({{convert|3|mi|1|abbr=out|disp=output only}}) 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 [http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-140934-michelmersh-court-michelmersh-and-timsbu British Listed Buildings: Michelmersh Court] and was for many years the home of Sir David and Lady Carina Frost.{{cite news|title=For sale: the stunning Hampshire home of Sir David Frost|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/buyingsellingandmoving/9899668/For-sale-the-stunning-Hampshire-home-of-Sir-David-Frost.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130302002817/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/buyingsellingandmoving/9899668/For-sale-the-stunning-Hampshire-home-of-Sir-David-Frost.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-03-02|newspaper=Daily Telegraph}}

The parish is located to the east of the River Test on the northern edge of the Hampshire Basin, with chalk in the north.British Geological Survey, 2002, England & Wales Sheet 299: Winchester, 1:50,000 Geology Series, Keyworth, Nottingham:British Geological Survey, {{ISBN|0-7518-3340-1}} 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,{{cite web|url=http://www.michelmersh.co.uk/home |title=Michelmersh Brick and Tile Company |access-date=2013-05-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120620223911/http://www.michelmersh.co.uk/home |archive-date=2012-06-20 }} 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'.Mills, A.D: A Dictionary of English Place-Names, page 229. Oxford University Press, 1991.