It is united to Weymouth as a sea port, |corporation, and market town. Market on Tuesday and Friday. | 95|Melksham, Wilts, 200. A town and parish, containing 759 houses, |and 4030 inhabitants. Most of the houses in this town are well |built of free stone, but not regular. It has one parish church, |and three meeting houses for dissenters. Its chief manufacture is |broad cloth, and it has a market every other Thursday for cattle. | 62|Meonstoke, Hants, 96. A parish containing 50 houses, and 289 |inhabitants. | 59|Meon, West, Hants, 96. A parish containing 83 houses, and 536 |inhabitants. | 100|=Mere=, Wilts, 164. A market town and parish, containing 457 |houses, and 2211 inhabitants. It is a very straggling town, |indifferently built, and has a small cross, or market house, where |a market is held on Thursday. In the reign of Henry the Third it |was the lordship of Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, and had a castle |belonging to it, occupying the summit of an adjoining eminence, |very few traces of which now remain. | |Its principal manufacture is bed-ticking. | 98|Mere Down, Wilts, 172. | 219|Merrifield, Cornwall, 123. | 187|Merrymeet, Devon, 149. | 19|Merstham, Surrey, 54. This village contains 100 houses, and 481 |inhabitants. | 7|Merton, Surrey, 61. This village is seated on the river Wandle, |over which it has a bridge, remarkable for its arch, which is |turned with tiles, instead of brick or stone, and it is the |boundary of the three parishes of Mitcham, Wimbledon, and Merton. |The parish contains 147 houses, and 813 inhabitants. The church is |an old building of flint, and has been lately repaired and |ornamented. | |Merton was once celebrated for an abbey, founded in the reign of |Henry the First, in which abbey, at a parliament held in 1236, the |famous “Provisions of Merton,” (the most ancient body of laws |after _Magna Charta_), were enacted, and the Barons gave that |celebrated answer to the clergy, _Nolumus leges Angliæ mutare_. | 256|Mewan, St., Cornwall, 127. A parish containing 130 houses, and 780 |inhabitants. | |Michelgrove Woods, Sussex, 217. | 20|Mickleham, Surrey, 62. A parish containing 53 houses, and 389 |inhabitants. It is pleasantly seated at the foot of Box Hill, and |watered by the river Mole. | 71|Middlecot, Hants, 160. | |Midford, Somerset, 204. | 50|Midgham, Berks, 179. A village containing 43 houses, and 340 |inhabitants. | 49|=Midhurst=, Sussex, 34. A borough, market town, and parish, |containing 199 houses, and 1256 inhabitants, pleasantly seated on |the banks of the river Arun, its name in Saxon signifying |_Middlewood_. The town is in general well built, and is a borough