Myerscough is a hamlet and former

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on the

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, from Lancaster, now in the parish of

Myerscough and Bilsborrow Myerscough and Bilsborrow () is a civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Borough of Wyre in Lancashire, England. It was formed on 1 April 2003 as a merger of the former parishes of Bilsborrow and Myerscough, Lancashire, Myerscough, and l ...

, in the Wyre district, in the county of

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, England. In 2001 it has a population of 1111. Since 1267 the

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has had land holdings in Myerscough.

History

The name "Myerscough" means 'Bog wood', the "myrr" part is pre-7th-century-old Norse for "marsh" and the "skogr" part means a "copse" or "thicket". The

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derives from the hamlet. Myerscough was not recorded in the

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but the township may have been the lost village of Aschebi. Myerscough was recorded as Mirscho in 1258, Miresco in 1265 and Mirescowe in 1297. It was possibly part of the forest of

Amounderness The Amounderness Hundred () is one of the six subdivisions of the historic county of Lancashire in North West England, but the name is older than the system of hundreds first recorded in the 13th century and might best be described as the name ...

. Myerscough was a

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in Lancaster parish. From 1866 Myerscough was a civil parish in its own right until it was merged with

Bilsborrow Bilsborrow is a village on the A6 road and the Lancaster Canal, in the Wyre District, in the English county of Lancashire. The village population at the 2011 census was 632. It is approximately east of Myerscough. Bilsborrow was a civil par ...

on 1 April 2003 to form "Myerscough and Bilsborrow".

Climate

References

Hamlets in Lancashire Former civil parishes in Lancashire Geography of the Borough of Wyre {{Lancashire-geo-stub