People in Meppershall
With thanks to Sandra Read Meppershall is a linear village of approximately 1.25 km in length, in Mid Bedfordshire. The village is on a spur and rises to 85m OD at the church and Motte and Bailey castle remains. From pottery evidence, the centre of Meppershall has been in continuous occupation since the Iron Age […]
Horticultural History of Meppershall
With thanks to John Parsons Horticulture, or market gardening has been of feature in Meppershall for a long time. There were nurserymen working during the eighteenth century. Records show Elizabeth Millard had a nursery garden in the Shillington Road area in 1845. At this time these growers would have been producing vegetables, fruit and flowers […]
Where did Meppershall’s road names come from?
With thanks to John Parsons We all, or most of us, have an address to which we feel we belong. But have you ever wondered how that address came into being, or indeed, if there might be a story behind it? In Meppershall, we have a mixture of old and new, geographical and historic, memorials […]