Marston, Lincolnshire

Description
Marston, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands on the river Witham, 1 mile SSW of Hougham station on the G.N.R. main line, and 5 1/2 miles NNW of Grantham, and has a post office under Grantham; money order office, Caythorpe; telegraph office, Hougham (R.S.) The parish comprises 2470 acres; population of the civil parish, 302; of the ecclesiastical, with Hougham, 589. The manor and most of the land belong to the Thorold family. Marston Hall was formerly the seat of the Thorolds, but is now a farmhouse. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Hougham, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint gross value, £378 with residence. The church is an ancient edifice of stone in the Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular styles; consists of chancel with S chantry chapel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a western tower with a broach spire. It contains many monuments of the Thorolds, and was thoroughly restored in 1881-82. There are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school, ans several useful charities.