Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Meaux (pronounced /mjus/ "mewss") is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is about 6.5 miles (10.5 km) north of Hull city centre and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east of Beverley.Meaux is part of the civil parish of Wawne.Meaux Abbey was a Cistercian Abbey near Meaux.Its name is recorded in the Domesday Book as Melse and seems to come from Old Norse Mel-sǽr = "Sandbank-pool", not from Meaux in France.A French textbook on the history of Meaux (a town about 50 km east of Paris) very clearly does link the two places. It cites a Gamel who fought with William, Duke of Normandy (William the Conqueror) as having been given the lands.Mewes (also Mewis) is a fairly common family name in the North-East, and believed to be used by descendants of those who came to Yorkshire, as soldiers commanded by Gamel.. }
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- Meaux,_East_Riding_of_Yorkshire abstract "Meaux (pronounced /mjus/ "mewss") is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is about 6.5 miles (10.5 km) north of Hull city centre and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east of Beverley.Meaux is part of the civil parish of Wawne.Meaux Abbey was a Cistercian Abbey near Meaux.Its name is recorded in the Domesday Book as Melse and seems to come from Old Norse Mel-sǽr = "Sandbank-pool", not from Meaux in France.A French textbook on the history of Meaux (a town about 50 km east of Paris) very clearly does link the two places. It cites a Gamel who fought with William, Duke of Normandy (William the Conqueror) as having been given the lands.Mewes (also Mewis) is a fairly common family name in the North-East, and believed to be used by descendants of those who came to Yorkshire, as soldiers commanded by Gamel.".