Marston, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Marston, a parish in Oxfordshire, on the river Cherwell, near the Oxford and Bletchley branch of the L. & N.W.R., 1 mile NNE of Oxford. It has a post office under Oxford; money order and telegraph office, Headington. Acreage, 1251; population, 720. A portion of this parish, consisting of only 1 acre, is in the administrative county borough of Oxford. The ancient seat of the Crokes was the place where the Royalists made formal surrender of Oxford in the wars of Charles I. It was removed in 1843. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £123. The church is a building of stone in the Transition, Norman, and Perpendicular styles, and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with porch and tower. Until 1830 there was an ancient cross in the churchyard, and another in the village, but in that year the first was taken down and used to mend the church wall, and the other was broken up for road materials.

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

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Oxfordshire Family History Society and Oxfordshire History Centre, have images of the Parish Registers for Oxfordshire online.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Marston from the following:

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

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Oxfordshire is available online

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 Oxfordshire newspapers online:

• Oxford Journal
• Banbury Advertiser
• Banbury Guardian
• Oxford University and City Herald
• Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette
• Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of the White Horse Gazette
• Oxford Times
• Banbury Beacon
• Ossett Observer

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Oxfordshire, 1566, 1574 &1634 are available on the Heraldry page.