Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MARSTON

MARSTON, a chapelry in Yardley parish, Worcester; around Hall-Green, adjacent to the boundary with Warwick, 1½ mile SW of Acocks-Green r. station, and 3½ SE by S of Birmingham. Post town, Hall-Green, under Birmingham. The chapelry has no defined limits. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £290. * Patrons, Trustees. The church was bnilt, by Job Marston, in the time of Queen Anne. There is a branch of the Yardley free grammar school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Yardley CP/AP       Worcestershire AncC
Place: Marston

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