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.

Meering

Major Settlement in the Parish of Meering

Historical Forms

  • Meringe 1086 DB 1278 FF 1280 Ass
  • Meringge 1293 Abbr
  • Merynge 1368 IpmR 1414 Cl
  • Meringe chapell 1541 Wills
  • Meringes c.1155 RegAntiq 1204 Cur 1227 ClR 1242 Fees c.1275 AddCh 1294 Pat
  • The Meerings 1722 DKRxlii
  • Meringa c.1165 LincolnDandC
  • Mering 1281 Ipm
  • Meryng 1302 FA 1352 Ipm
  • Meyringe 1566 FF
  • Meereinge 1627 ib

Etymology

'Settlement of the dwellers by the mere,' v. ingas . The mere is the pool formed by the alternative course of the Trent known as the Fleet. Meering gets badly flooded whenever the Trent rises considerably.

Places in the same Parish

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