MARTON-CUM-GRAFTON, a parish in Great Ouseburn district, W. R. Yorkshire; 3 miles S by E of Aldborough, and 3¾ SSE of Boroughbridge r. station. Posttown, Ouseburn, under York. Acres, 1,198. Real property, £3,796. Pop., 454. Houses, 105. The property is subdivided. Wood Hills, on the border of Grafton, command an extensive and beautiful view. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £200. * Patron, St. John's College, Cambridge. The church is a small old structure, with a belfry; and was reported in 1859 as needing to be rebuilt. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a handsome national school, and charities £8.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))