{"id":153,"date":"2015-07-28T11:03:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T10:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martonvillage.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=153"},"modified":"2025-12-07T10:59:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T10:59:47","slug":"marton-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/martonvillage.com\/?page_id=153","title":{"rendered":"Marton History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marton, Warwickshire, appears in the Domesday Book as \u201cMortone\u201d and this name is interpreted by the English Place-Name Society as meaning \u2018farm by the pool\u2019. There is evidence of a Romano-British farmstead near the current-day playing fields that was 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.
\nGeorge Timms, who established the village museum, is the only person to have researched in any depth on the Marton\u2019s history. Only a little of that work has been published in an A4-sized booklet (42 pages) called \u201cThe Annals of an Ancient Parish\u201d (1985). There is a little more information in Volume 6 of the Victoria County History (pages 170-173) which\u00a0concentrates 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 round about 1820.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s History & What to Research.<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

A Local History Group was set up in 2009. More about this is given in the Group\u2019s section on this website<\/a>. This Group has published a number of articles about Marton\u2019s history and links to these articles are given below.<\/p>\n

An Historic Tour of Marton<\/p>\n