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.

Big Mere & Little Mere

Other OS name in the Parish of Marbury Chapelry

Historical Forms

  • too goodly meres or pooles c.1536 Leland
  • Marbury Meare 1656 Orm2
  • Marbury Mere 1837 TA
  • The Mere 1831 Bry

Etymology

, 1837ib , too goodly meres or pooles c.1536 Leland. Big Mere is Marbury Meare 1656 Orm2, Marbury Mere 1837TA , The Mere 1831 Bry , v. mere 1 .