English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Melverley

Field in the Parish of Pontesbury

Historical Forms

  • 1840 TA

Etymology

Melverley(a tiny triangle in a road-junctionS.W. of village, no obvious connection with Melverley)