Marston, Oxfordshire

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.