Long Marston, Hertfordshire
Historical Description
Marston, Long, an ecclesiastical parish, which was formed in 1867 out of the civil parish of Tring, Herts, and Marsworth parish, Bucks, 1 mile SE by S of Marston Gate station on the L. & N.W.R.,and 3½ miles NW by N of Tring. It has a post office under Tring; money order office, Tring; telegraph office, Cheddington. Population, 440. The limits include Long Marston and Gubblecote hamlets, with Betlow lordship. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £185 with residence, in the gift of Christchurch College, Oxford. The church, erected in 1883, is a building of stone in the Gothic style, containing some portions of the old church, which was taken down, with the exception of the tower, in 1882. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Hertfordshire | |
| Civil parish | Tring | |
| Hundred | Dacorum | |
| Poor Law union | Buntingford |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Long Marston from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Marston, Long)
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hertfordshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Long 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 Hertfordshire newspapers online:
- Hertford Mercury and Reformer
- Herts Guardian, Agricultural Journal, and General Advertiser
- Watford Observer
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Hertfordshire, 1572 and 1634. Edited by Walter C. Metcalfe, F.S.A. is available on the Heraldry page.