Marston St Lawrence, Northamptonshire

Description
Marston St Lawrence, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands 1 1/4 mile NNE of Far-thinghoe station on the Banbury and Northampton section of the L. & N.W.B., and 5 miles NE of Banbury, and has a postal wall-box under Banbury; money order office, Culworth; telegraph office, Banbury. The parish contains also the hamlet of Westhorpe, and comprises 1702 acres; population of the civil parish, 344; of the ecclesiastical, with Warkworth, 530. The parish council, under the Local Government Act, 1894, consists of seven members. The manor, with Marston House, belongs to the Blencowe family, who have been resident at Marston since the tune of Henry VI. The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Wark-worth, in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £445 with residence. The church is ancient, of various dates; consists of nave, aisles, side chapel, and chancel, with embattled tower; and contains sedilia, a carved oak altar-piece, a piscina, and several monuments of the Blencowes. It was restored in 1877-78.