Melmerby is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England.

It lies in Coverdale in the Yorkshire Dales about 3 miles (4.8 km) south-west of Leyburn.

[2] The name is Old Norse, meaning "Melmor's farmstead": the personal name Melmor is a Scandinavian borrowing from the Old Irish personal name Máel Muire.

[3] Melmerby was historically a township in the large ancient parish of Coverham in the North Riding of Yorkshire,[2] and became a separate civil parish in 1866.

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