Mersham
Early-attested site in the Parish of Wartling
Historical Forms
- Meresham
Etymology
Mersham (6″) is Meresham n.d. Bay 67d. It is virtually certain that an OE form of this name is to be found in the mæreshamm or mereshamm of BCS 821, 822. The bounds of Hankham and Glynleigh are there said to touch those of mæresham and pass from there to those of Ersham supra 436. The boundaries cannot be exactly traced owing to the nature of the ground and the bad text of the charter, but it is most unlikely that there existed in the immediate neighbourhood of Mersham another place of the same name. The name must mean 'enclosure of (or by) the pool.'