BUTLERS MARSTON - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"BUTLERS MARSTON, a parish in the Kington division of the hundred of Kington, county Warwick, 1½ mile S.W. of Kington. The surface is hilly, and the greater part of the land arable. The village is small, and wholly agricultural. Upon an artificial mount on the green was a large elm tree, the decayed trunk of which resembled a grotto, and could contain twelve persons. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester, value £169, in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The church, dedicated to SS. Peter and Paul, is an ancient structure, chiefly Norman. There is a village school.

"BUTLERS-MARSTON, a parish in the hundred of Kington, in the county of Warwick, 1 mile to the S.W. of Kington. It is watered by a small stream, a branch of the river Avon. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester, value £88, in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to SS. Peter and Paul. The Warwick hounds meet at this village."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]