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MARR:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.

"MARR, a parish in the northern division of the wapentake of STRAFFORTH-and-TICKHILL, West riding of the county of YORK, 4 miles W.N.W. from Doncaster, containing 162 inhabitants. The living is a discharged perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of York, endowed with £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Earl of Kinnoul. The church, dedicated to St. Helen, is principally in the early style of English architecture; the tower is surmounted by a small spire, and has two singular arched recesses, one on the north, the other on the south, side."