Marton, Warwickshire, appears in the Domesday Book as “Mortone,” and the English Place-Name Society interprets the name as meaning ‘farm by the pool’. There is evidence of a Romano-British farmstead near the current-day playing fields, by the edge of a pool. Certainly, Marton was a notable settlement at least from late Anglo-Saxon times, when it was the centre of an administrative area of territory known as a Hundred.
George Timms, who established the village museum, is the only person to have researched Marton’s history in any depth. Only a small portion of that work has been published in an A4-sized booklet (42 pages) titled “The Annals of an Ancient Parish” (1985). There is a little more information in Volume 6 of the Victoria County History (pages 170-173), which concentrates on manorial lineage and church architecture rather than the lives of the people over the years; however, it does contain a picture of the church as painted around 1820.
There is much more research which could be done on the history of Marton. The potential for this is set out in this article: Marton’s History & What to Research.
A Local History Group was set up in 2009. More information on this is available in the Group’s section on this website. This Group has published a number of articles about Marton’s history, and links to these articles are given below.
An Historic Tour of Marton
- The Streets of Marton: A423 to North Street: Part 1
- The Streets of Marton: Church Street to Fields Farm Lane: Part 2
Houses in Marton
- Unpeeling the Layers of North Street
- The Elms
- The History of Some of Marton’s Old Houses
- History of some Marton houses: Part 2 (warning: large document)
- Marton’s historic houses: Part 3 – Meadow Bank
- Marton Building Developments 1900-1949 (warning: large document)
Businesses in Marton
- History of Marton’s Post Offices
- History of the Hands family, Marton blacksmiths
- History of Marton’s Co-op
First World War
Second World War
- World War II memories of local Marton people
- Marton in World War II – Based on press cuttings and memories of residents
- Marton’s Home Guard
Marton Museum
Marton’s Church & Chapel
- History of Marton Church
- Marton’s Gravestones
- Marton’s Chapel
- Marton’s Vicars
- Church Zinc Panel Restoration 2019
- Marton Graves: Annie and Herbert Mills
- Marton Graves: Eva Steane
- Marton Graves: The Kennings
- Marton Grave; Rev McComas
- Marton Grave: Nicola (child grave)
General Marton
- Roman Marton
- Medieval Marton
- Tudor/Stuart Marton through wills and inventories
- Marton’s Civil War Loss Accounts
- Marton in the eighteenth century, through wills and inventories
- Victorian Marton
- Marton farm labourers emigration to New Zealand in 1874
- A History of Schools in Marton
- Law and Order in Marton over the last 800 Years
- Edwardian Photographers in the Marton area
- Marton & Warwickshire Railways
- History of Warwickshire Agriculture in the 20th Century
- Post War Photo Album
- History of Marton WI
- Demolition of Disused Railway Bridge at Marton
- Secret Marton Part One
- Secret Marton Part Two
- Marton Artists Part One
- Marton Placenames
Local Area
- Birdingbury Over Two Centuries
- Birdingbury: The Manor, the Hall and the Biddulphs
- Bourton Hall & the Darlington’s 1880 Photo Album
- History of Princethorpe College
- Princethorpe and its Edwardian Photographers
- Long Itchington through the eyes of Edwardian Photographers
Marton’s Historic Records
- County Record Office (including references to Marton)
- Marton’s Historic Environment Records
External Links:
- Marton Station on warwickshirerailways.com