English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Marston

Early-attested site in the Parish of Church Eaton

Historical Forms

  • Mersetone 1086 DB
  • Merston c.1255 RH 1272 Misc 1281 FF 1292 Ch 1293 Banco 1332 SR 1428 FA
  • Merston under le Seard 1652 ParlSurv
  • Mershton 1316 FA 1327 SR
  • Mershton juxta Blumenhulle 1359 Banco
  • Marston 1567 Pat 1833 O

Etymology

'The farmstead by the marsh', v. mersc , tūn . Many other examples are contextually impossible to distinguish from Marston in Pirehill, and these have been excluded from both.