---
type: misc
title: Meryton
description: The Hertfordshire market town near Longbourn, host to the assembly balls
  and a militia regiment.
resource: raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt
tags:
- meryton
- hertfordshire
- militia
timestamp: '2026-07-16T18:15:29Z'
citadel_version: 0.3.0
---

Meryton is the market town one mile from [Longbourn](../misc/longbourn.md), where the Bennet
sisters visit their aunt and a milliner's shop several times a week.[^s1] It hosts the local
assembly balls, including the one at which the Bennets, [Charles Bingley](../persons/charles-bingley.md),
and [Fitzwilliam Darcy](../persons/fitzwilliam-darcy.md) first meet.[^s2] A militia regiment is
quartered there for the winter, making Meryton its headquarters; this regiment is later joined by
[George Wickham](../persons/george-wickham.md).[^s3] By early summer the regiment relocates to a
camp near [Brighton](../misc/brighton.md), taking Wickham with it.[^s4]

## See also

- [Longbourn](../misc/longbourn.md)
- [George Wickham](../persons/george-wickham.md)
- [Brighton](../misc/brighton.md)
- [Catherine Bennet](../persons/catherine-bennet.md)

## Sources

[^s1]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 1667-1671 — Meryton's distance from Longbourn and the Bennet sisters' visits (ingested 2026-07-16)
[^s2]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 976-990 — the Meryton assembly where the Bennets, Bingley, and Darcy first meet (ingested 2026-07-16)
[^s3]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 1676-1679 — the militia regiment quartered at Meryton (ingested 2026-07-16)
[^s4]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), line 8500 — the regiment's relocation to Brighton (ingested 2026-07-16)
