Melling

Melling, is the name of several places in England; one in New Zealand and one in Styria, Austria. The name was once used on a locomotive. Melling originates from the Anglo-Saxon roots for "The homestead of Maella", (or Malla), first settled in Lancashire, England by Maella's family in the 6th century. As a surname it derives from the places in England, and is also found in fiction as character names and place names.

Places

• Melling, Merseyside, an area of Sefton, Merseyside, England
• Melling, Lancashire is a village in Carnforth, Lancashire, England
• Wald am Schoberpass, has a hamlet called 'Melling', in the district of Leoben in Styria, Austria
• Melling, New Zealand is a suburb of Lower Hutt, New Zealand
  • Melling Branch a commuter branch line to the above suburb
  • Melling Railway Station the terminal station for the above line

Motorsport

• Melling Racing was a NASCAR team that ran from 1982 to 2002

Things

• Melling was the name of a GWR Hawthorn Class 2-4-0 locomotive.

People

• Al Melling, of Melling Consultancy Design, (MCD), is a prolific car engine designer.
• Antoine Ignace Melling (1763–1831) was Court Architect and Engraver to Ottoman Sultan Selim III, and Landscape Painter to the Empress Josephine of France.
• Gerald Melling, New Zealand architect and writer
• Harry Melling of Melling Engine Parts sponsored NASCAR Racing.
• Actor Harry Melling [1] was Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter films.
• O.R. Melling is the pen-name of G.V. Whelan.
• Philip H. Melling, (Ph.D. Manchester), is the founding head of the American Studies Faculty, University of Wales, Swansea, [2](Literature, contemporary ethnic writing).
• William Melling played the film-only character of Nigel Wespurt in the Harry Potter franchise

Fictional people and places

• Actor Sir Michael Caine played Victor Melling in the film Miss Congeniality
• Margaret Biggs is the author of the Melling School series of books for girls, published in the 1950s and 1960s, and reprinted and extended in the 2000s.
• Robin Klein is the author of All in the Blue Unclouded Weather. This is a collection of interlinked nostalgic stories set in a late 1940s Australian country town, which focus on the four young Melling sisters: Vivienne, Cathy, Heather, and Grace.

See also

• List of Old English (Anglo-Saxon) surnames
• Meling