Marston, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Marston, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands on the river Witham, 1 mile SSW of Hougham station on the G.N.R. main line, and 5½ miles NNW of Grantham, and has a post office under Grantham; money order office, Caythorpe; telegraph office, Hougham (R.S.) The parish comprises 2470 acres; population of the civil parish, 302; of the ecclesiastical, with Hougham, 589. The manor and most of the land belong to the Thorold family. Marston Hall was formerly the seat of the Thorolds, but is now a farmhouse. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Hougham, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint gross value, £378 with residence. The church is an ancient edifice of stone in the Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular styles; consists of chancel with S chantry chapel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a western tower with a broach spire. It contains many monuments of the Thorolds, and was thoroughly restored in 1881-82. There are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school, ans several useful charities.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Marston St. Mary | |
Poor Law union | Newark | |
Wapentake | Loveden |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Marston:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1707-1874 | 1755-1774 | 1709-1790 | 1707-1911 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Marston from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Marston (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of Marston are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online: