Butlers Marston, Warwickshire

Historical Description

Butler's Marston, a village and a parish in Warwickshire, on an affluent of the river Avon, 1½ mile SW of Kineton. Post town, Kineton, under Warwick. Acreage of parish, 1777; population, 230. There are two tumuli in the village. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £170. Patron, Christ Chureh, Oxford. The church is Norman, and was restored in 1872; it contains an old carved oak puplit, and brasses to the Woodward family, who were in possession of the manor for many generations. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

The Warwickshire County Record Office hold the following registers for Butlers Marston:

Most of the records prior to 1911 have been digitised and are available on Ancestry.co.uk

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Butlers Marston from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Marston, Butlers (St. Peter and St. Paul))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Warwickshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Butlers 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 Warwickshire papers online:

• Leamington Spa Courier

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Warwickshire 1619 is available on the Heraldry page.