Marston Green, Warwickshire
Historical Description
Marston Green, a village in Bickenhill parish, Warwickshire, 3½ miles S of Coleshill. It has a station on the Birmingham and Rugby section of the L. & N.W.R., and a post office under Birmingham; money order and telegraph office, Coleshill. There is a private chapel, the property of the Wingfield Digby family.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Warwickshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Marston Green 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:
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Warwickshire 1619 is available on the Heraldry page.