South Marston, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Marston, South, a chapelry in Highworth parish, Wiltshire, adjacent to the G.W.R. and to the river Cole at the boundary with Berks, 1½ miles W of Shrivenham station on the G.W.R., and S½ S by W of Highworth. Post town, Swindon; money order and telegraph office, Stratton St Margaret. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; value, £170. Patron, the Vicar of Highworth. The church is ancient. 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.
Ancient County | Wiltshire | |
Civil parish | Highworth | |
Hundred | Highworth | |
Poor Law union | Highworth and Swindon |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1539.
Findmypast, in association with the Wiltshire Record Office, have the following parish records online for South Marston:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1539-1837 | 1585-1874 | 1585-1812 |
Churches
Church of England
St. Mary Magdalene (parish church)
The church of St. Mary Magdalene is an ancient structure, partly in the Early English style, with traces of Norman work, and consists of chancel, nave, south transept, south porch and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing a clock and 3 bells: the church was restored under the direction of Mr. Belcher, architect, of London, at a cost of over £2,000, and affords sittings for 200 persons.
Methodist
St. Mary Magdalene
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for South Marston from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Marston, South)
Maps
Online maps of South 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 Wiltshire papers online: