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Places
35 places found.
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- Marston, Cheshire
- Broad Marston, Hereford & Worcester
- Marston, Oxfordshire
- Marston, Staffordshire (near Wheaton Aston)
- Marston, Staffordshire (near Stafford)
- Marston, Warwickshire (near Sutton Coldfield)
- Marston, Wiltshire
- Marston, Lincolnshire
- Marston, Hereford & Worcester
- Marston, Warwickshire (near Rugby)
- Marston Hill, Wiltshire
- South Marston, Wiltshire
- Butlers Marston, Warwickshire
- Lea Marston, Warwickshire
- Priors Marston, Warwickshire
- Marston Bigot, Somerset
- Marston Doles, Warwickshire
- Marston Jabbett, Warwickshire
- Marston Montgomery, Derbyshire
- Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire
- Lower Marston, Somerset
- Long Marston, Hertfordshire
- New Marston, Oxfordshire
- Marston Magna, Somerset
- Marston Meysey, Wiltshire
- Marston Trussell, Northamptonshire
- Long Marston, Yorkshire
- Long Marston, Warwickshire
- Marston Gate, Somerset
- North Marston, Buckinghamshire
- Potters Marston, Leicestershire
- Marston Green, West Midlands
- Marston on Dove, Derbyshire
- Marston Stannett, Hereford & Worcester
- Marston St Lawrence, Northamptonshire
Photos
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Maps
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Books
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Memories
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Personal Reflections
I was born in Sandleaze, Worton in 1957. I was brought up at 1 Mill Road near the Marston boundary. I remember many things about the village especially the Rose and Crown Pub and the Mill. I remember with pride the ...Read more
A memory of Worton by
Family
My great grandmother, Mrs Burbidge lived in the house on Charwelton Hill, three fields away from the main road. Mother said a tin box was left by the road where post, bread and groceries were left. Later, in 1941 my grandfather, gran and ...Read more
A memory of Charwelton in 1940 by
Methodist Chapels
I was born in Braunston in 1941 but was taken to Hellidon as a baby to live with my mother's parents, the Burbidges. In Hellidon, the Methodist church was closed during the war period, so I was taken to the Methodist ...Read more
A memory of Priors Marston in 1941 by
Poetry
This poem was sent to mac by Mrs S. Holmes: Death of Chelmsley Wood The sheer delight of summer afternoons, As through the fields in cotton frocks we walked, The long grass licking at our gangly legs, While we in deep contentment ...Read more
A memory of Chelmsley Wood in 1995
Evacuee
I was evacuated from London to Oxford with Burlington School on 1st September 1939. At first we had our lessons in the old Milham Ford School premises but after a few weeks transferred to the new school in Marston where we shared the ...Read more
A memory of Oxford in 1940 by
Reminiscing
I was born in NW London. My first visit to Woburn Sands was about 1950 when my Uncle Ted and Aunt Ada moved here. They lived at the 'Dene' Aspley Hill. Aunt Ada did the housework for Mrs Russell the owner of the 'Dene' and my uncle ...Read more
A memory of Woburn Sands in 1950 by
Kitts Green Road
My family moved into Kitts Green Road 1937/38 before the road "joined" up with Mackadown Lane. There was Dad, Mom my older sister Edna, brother Dennis and my Grandmother (Dad's mother). I am still in contact with my best ...Read more
A memory of Kitt's Green in 1930 by
Kings Cottage
Whilst at Priors Marston my grandfather, Rowland Joseph Marsh and his wife Annie Elizabeth Lavender had twins: Leonard and Vera Marsh. They already had a daughter Kathleen Annie. I am the eldest daughter of Kath Marsh, who is ...Read more
A memory of Priors Marston by
Ww1 Soldier In Long Marston
I have postcards of Long Marston circa 1914/15 sent by my grandfather while he was serving in the Northumberland Fusiliers (WW1) .On the back of one he has written "this is where we parade every ...Read more
A memory of Long Marston in 1910 by
Marston
Marston Shelton CP and the bus coming to teach us to swim at Stewartby. Gardening on a Wednesday and get 6d for mowing the Head`s lawn. I played my only club football game on the old playing field for Marston Shelton Rovers 2nds ...Read more
A memory of Marston Moretaine in 1963 by
Captions
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The rhyme goes: 'Piping Pepworth, Dancing Marston, Haunted Hillborough, Hungry Grafton, Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford, Beggarly Broom, Drunken Bidford'.
Many people visit the Black Boy Inn, which has expansive views northwards across the vale towards North Marston.
From the rear of the Black Boy are fine views towards North Marston, the hill dropping sharply into the valley.
This view is taken looking south towards Oving from Bowling Alley's junction with the North Marston to Whitchurch Road.
Children crossing the river at Marston, once a village but now a north Oxford suburb. During the Civil War, the old manor house was the headquarters of the Parliamentarian army.
The River Cherwell is quieter than the Thames; a popular run on a summer evening is up for a drink to the Victoria and Albert pub at Old Marston, whose garden runs down to the river.
The road on that side is the Marston Road. In medieval times this area was known as Barton Cross.
One guide book states that 'an interesting visit may be paid to the Marston Mine, 300ft deep, with a roof supported by huge pillars of salt... frequent subsidence of the earth, owing to the pumping out
In the 17th century the building that is now The White Hart Royal was a manor house, and Charles I stayed there in July 1644 after the Battle of Marston Moor.
The rhyme attributed to him goes: 'Piping Pepworth, Dancing Marston, Haunted Hillborough, Hungry Grafton, Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford, Beggarly Broom, Drunken Bidford'.
Dersingham is on the ridge running north towards Hunstanton; many of the houses are built of local carstone.
This is one of several villages in west Norfolk where the main building material is local carstone, rather than the flint used throughout the rest of the county: the buildings to the left of the photograph
Compton Castle, near Marlton in Devonshire, is a 14th-century manor house built without a moat, though the gatehouse came complete with machicolations.
The parish church of St Mary is built from deep golden Carstone with limestone details.
In 1931, the widow of Stafford Bourne (the son of one of the founders of Bourne & Hollingsworth's store in London) sold Garston Manor to Benskins the brewers, who transferred it to the North West Metropolitan
The picture is north- eastwards to the gable ends of the Cedars and Garston (centre right).
