Meaux is a hamlet

Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...

 in the East Riding of Yorkshire

East Riding of Yorkshire

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, England

England

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. It is about 6.5 miles (10.5 km) north of Hull

Kingston upon Hull

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 city centre and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east of Beverley

Beverley

Beverley is a market town, civil parish and the county town of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, located between the River Hull and the Westwood. The town is noted for Beverley Minster and architecturally-significant religious buildings along New Walk and other areas, as well as the Beverley...

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Meaux is part of the civil parish of Wawne

Wawne

Wawne , also spelled Waghen, is a small village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England; it is first mentioned in 1086...

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Meaux Abbey

Meaux Abbey

Meaux Abbey was a Cistercian Abbey founded in 1151 by William le Gros, 1st Earl of Albemarle , Earl of York and 4th lord of Holderness, near Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire....

 was a Cistercian Abbey near Meaux.

Its name is recorded in the Domesday Book

Domesday Book

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as Melse and seems to come from Old Norse

Old Norse

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 Mel-sǽr = "Sandbank-pool", not from Meaux

Meaux

Meaux is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. It is located east-northeast from the center of Paris. Meaux is a sub-prefecture of the department and the seat of an arondissement...

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 descendants of those who came to Yorkshire as soldiers commanded by Gamel.