Marlake House
Early-attested site in the Parish of Boarstall
Historical Forms
- Merlakebrugge 1298 VCHii.132
- Merlake 1316 FA
- Merlake, Marlake 1540 LP
Etymology
Marlake House is a public house actually in Oxfordshire, in Murcot parish, but it preserves the name of a lost Buckinghamshire manor, associated with Nashway Farm (infra ) in Feudal Aids. Merelake is also mentioned in a perambulation (temp. Edward I) quoted by Lipscomb (i. 52). It is clearly the boundary-stream (v. mære , lacu ) which divides the two counties here, running parallel to Boarstall Lane. Cf. VCHu. s .'to Merlakebrugge and so always by the bounds of the counties of Bucks and Oxon.'