Description
Marton, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Lancashire, on the coast, from 1 to 5 miles SE of Blackpool railway station. The township consists of the hamlets of Great and Little Marton. Post town, Blackpool, under Preston. Acreage, 5454, of which 758 are water and foreshore; population of township, 3044; of ecclesiastical parish, 2309 The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £198 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Poulton-le-Fylde. The church was built in 1804; was enlarged and had a tower added about 1863, and is a plain brick structure. There is an endowed school with £100 a year.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
