Editing Merriott (section)

==History==

The name Merriott means ''boundary gate'' from the Old English ''Maergeat''.<ref name="bush">{{cite book|last=Bush|first=Robin|title=Somerset: The complete guide|publisher=The Dovecote Press Ltd|location=Wimborne|year=1994|pages=[https://archive.org/details/somersetcomplete0000bush/page/142 142]|isbn=1-874336-26-1|url=https://archive.org/details/somersetcomplete0000bush/page/142}}</ref>

The manor was held at the time of the [[Domesday Book]] in 1086 by Harding son of Eadnorth whose descendants took the name of the village and continued until the death of Sir John de Meriet in 1391. The good quality of the soil led to the development of market-gardening, with the first use in England of the word [[Plant nursery|nursery]] (''noresire'') occurred at Merriot in 1369.<ref name="bush"/>

The parish was part of the [[Hundred (county subdivision)|hundred]] of [[Crewkerne (hundred)|Crewkerne]].<ref name=genuki>{{cite web|title=Somerset Hundreds|url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Miscellaneous/|publisher=GENUKI|access-date=8 October 2011}}</ref>

Major rebuilding took place in the village following a fire in 1811.<ref name="havinden">{{cite book|last=Havinden|first=Michael|title=The Somerset Landscape|year=1982|publisher=Hodder and Stoughton|location=London|series=The making of the English landscape|isbn=0-340-20116-9|page=139}}</ref>

The school building dates from 1876,<ref>{{NHLE|num=1056111|desc=Merriott First School |access-date=26 January 2009}}</ref> and now incorporates the former Sunday school which was built in 1834.<ref>{{NHLE|num=1308221|desc=Former Sunday School|access-date=26 January 2009}}</ref>