Marston, Worcestershire
Historical Description
Marston, a chapelry in Yardley parish, Worcestershire, around Hall Green, adjacent to the boundary with Warwickshire, 3½ miles SE by S of Birmingham. The chapelry has no defined limits. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; gross value, £160 with residence. The church was built by Job Marston in the time of Queen Anne, and was restored in 1866.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Land and Property
The full transcript of the Worcestershire section of the Return of Owners of Land, 1873.
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 Worcestershire papers online:
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Worcestershire 1569 is available on the Heraldry page.