Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MARTON

MARTON, a village and a parish in Stokesley district, N. R. Yorkshire. The village stands 1 mile W of Ormsby r. station, and 4 S by E of Middlesborough; and has a post office under Middlesborough. The parish contains also the hamlets of Newham, Langlands, and Tolesby; and comprises 3,375 acres. Real property, £5,782. Pop. in 1851,426; in 1861,587. Houses, 116. The increase of pop. arose from the removal hither of families from Middlesborough, and from the erection of a number of new houses. The property is subdiVided. The manor belongs to H. W. F. Bolckow, Esq. Marton Hall is a chief residence; occupies a commanding site; and succeeded a previous old edifice, which was burnt in 1 832. A spot called Cook's Garth was the site of the birth-place of the circumnavigator Cook, a two-roomed mud cabin, destroyed by a Major Rudd; and on a height in the neighbouring township of Easy, stands a mounment to Cook, an obelisk 51 feet high, erected in 1827. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Valne, £300.* Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church was originally cruciform and Norman; underwent restoration in 1843; has lost its S transept; and contains chancel stalls, an early English water-drain, and a Calvary cross of the 12th century. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, a parochial library, and charities £18.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Marton AP/CP       Stokesley RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Marton

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