Mere Side also Mere Street so called by 1630 and shown on a map of 1656 as The Meare Banke Common inhabited by 20 dwellings, which probably stood on sites taken from the Fen next to the Mere and a further 30 dwellings are shown by the 1870's.



Mereside today is a relatively quite street that runs all the way from the bottom of Clay Street to Julius Martin Lane, although with the Mill site housing development taking place and the proposed housing development near the old station it will become completely congested with traffic in the future along with Clay Street, this may also cause some flooding in the wet periods to the present properties in Mereside, due to the location of where these houses are being built.
The gardens of some of the present properties are already prone to flooding.