Meaux, East Riding of Yorkshire

Meaux, East Riding of Yorkshire

Coordinates: 53°50′26″N 0°20′00″W / 53.840656°N 0.333367°W / 53.840656; -0.333367

Meaux
Meaux is located in East Riding of Yorkshire
Meaux

 Meaux shown within the East Riding of Yorkshire
OS grid reference TA097395
Parish Wawne
Unitary authority East Riding of Yorkshire
Ceremonial county East Riding of Yorkshire
Region Yorkshire and the Humber
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town BEVERLEY
Postcode district HU17
Dialling code 01482
Police Humberside
Fire Humberside
Ambulance Yorkshire
EU Parliament Yorkshire and the Humber
UK Parliament Beverley and Holderness
List of places: UK • England • Yorkshire

Meaux (pronounced /mjus/ "mewss"[1]) is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is about 6.5 miles (10.5 km) north of Hull city centre and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east of Beverley.

Meaux is part of the civil parish of Wawne.

Site of Meaux Abbey

Meaux Abbey was a Cistercian Abbey near Meaux.

Its name is recorded in the Domesday Book as Melse and seems to come from Old Norse Mel-sǽr = "Sandbank-pool", not from Meaux in France.

A French textbook on the history of Meaux (a town about 50 km east of Paris) very clearly does link the two places. It cites a Gamel who fought with William, Duke of Normandy (William the Conqueror) as having been given the lands.[2]

Mewes (also Mewis) is a fairly common family name in the North-East and believed to be descendants of those who came to Yorkshire as soldiers commanded by Gamel.

References

  1. ^ Miller, G.M. (1971). BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names. Oxford University Pres. 
  2. ^ Monasticum Anglicanum.
  • Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 8. 



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