Long Marston Dry Marston Marston Sicca
Major Settlement in the Parish of Long Marston
Historical Forms
- Merstuna 1043 KCD916
- Merston(e) c.1043 KCD939 1198 Cur 1221 Ass 1233 Berk 1340 Ch
- Drey(e) Merston(e) 1248 Ass 1255 FF
- Dri(e) Merston(e), Dry(e) Merston(e) 1250 WinchLB 1267 Ch 1282 Episc 1540 MinAcct
- Dru(e) Merston(e) 1255 FF 1282 Episc 1291 Fine
- Druy(e) Merston(e) 1315,1317 Ipm
- Longa Merston 1285 FA
- Lunge Merston(e) 1287 Ass
- Merston(e) Sicca 1291 Tax 1384 WinchLB 1535 VE
- Merestone 1086 DB
- Meyrston 1287 QW
- Dr(e)yemershton 1318 Orig 1319 WinchLB 1362 ADiv
- Dreymerschetone 1365 WinchLB
- Marston Sicca 1535 VE 1540 MinAcct 1822 M
- Drye Marston als. Longe Marston 1583 Talbot
- Longe Marston als. Marston Sicca als. Dry Marston 1610 FF
Etymology
'Farmstead near the marsh', v. mersc , tūn . To distinguish it from Broad Marston (253infra ), it is described as 'long' from the length of the village (v. lang ), and as 'dry' (v. drȳge , Lat sicca ), because it stands above the level of the marshy ground of Noleham Brook; on the use of this contrasting term Rudder 540 remarks that it 'is not unaptly applied to this place, for notwithstanding its superabundance of water in the winter, it is frequently very much distressed for want of it in dry seasons'. On the forms Lunge - and Dreye - cf. Phonol. §§ 6, 30.