MARSTON, a parish in Headington district, Oxfordshire; on the river Cherwell, near the Oxford and Bletchley railway, 1¾ mile NNE of Oxford. Post town, Oxford. Acres, 1,212. Real property, £3,301. Pop., 452. Houses, 94. The ancient seat of the Crokes here was the place where the royalists made formal surrender of Oxford in the wars of Charles I.; and is now a farmh ouse. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £195. Patron, the Rev. Dr. T. H. Whorwood. The church is later English; and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with porch and tower. There are a national school, and charities £39.

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