The historic village is surrounded by ditches of water on farms and was once home to a lake that stretched all the way to Maghull.
A village home to less than 3,500 people has a long history of monks and tales of blood seeping up from the ground. Melling village is a gem which was originally part of Lancashire and dates to 1086 in the Doomsday book.
The name is tribal keeping the memory of a group of migrant settlers from the 6 th century AD. The land was owned by Henry of Melling who gave it to Cockersands Abbey Monks in 1184Ad
