Mellor is a village situated in the Borough of Ribble Valley in Lancashire, England. The population of the civil parish at the census of 2011 was 2,262. The name Mellor is first attested around 1130, in the form Malver, with forms such as Meluer appearing thereafter. Its origin lies in the Common Brittonic words which survive in modern Welsh as moel an…Mellor is a village situated in the Borough of Ribble Valley in Lancashire, England. The population of the civil parish at the census of 2011 was 2,262. The name Mellor is first attested around 1130, in the form Malver, with forms such as Meluer appearing thereafter. Its origin lies in the Common Brittonic words which survive in modern Welsh as moel and bre. Thus the name once meant "the bare hill".
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