Moreton-in-Marsh
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 59 ′ N , 1 ° 42 ′ W | ||
| OS National Grid | SP191258 | ||
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| Residents | 3198 (as of 2001) | ||
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| Post town | Moreton-in-Marsh | ||
| ZIP code section | GL56 | ||
| prefix | 01608 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | South West England | ||
| Shire county | Gloucestershire | ||
| District | Cotswold | ||
| Civil Parish | Moreton-in-Marsh | ||
| British Parliament | The Cotswolds | ||
| Website: Moreton-in-Marsh website | |||
Moreton-in-Marsh is a town and parish with 3,198 inhabitants (2001) in the north-east of the English county of Gloucestershire , which is nestled in a hilly landscape, the Cotswold Hills , at the junction of the Fosse Way , a road from the Roman era (now the A 429 road ), and the A 44 road is located. The town is surrounded by the still young Evenlode River, which originated near Batsford and finally flows into the Thames after a steeply winding course towards Oxford , east of Eynsham .
City name
The toponym comes from Old English . Moreton means "homestead on the moor" and "in marsh" comes from henne and mersh , a marshland that is inhabited by birds such as pond claws . An alternative assumption is that 'Marsh' is a corruption of "March", early English for "border", since the Fosse Way formed the western border of the Roman occupation. Until the early 20th century, the place was known as "Moreton-in-the-Marsh", before 1930 the place name changed to "Moreton-in-Marsh".
Buildings
The parish church of Saint David began as a branch church for Blockley , to which the residents of Moreton would bring their dead for burial. The early history of the Church at Moreton is not entirely clear, but there is evidence that a primitive Celtic place of worship was located in the current location of the church that had seven springs. The Church of Moreton came under the jurisdiction of the Batsford Estate which was assigned to the Bishops of Worcester in the 12th century. Later, Moreton Church was a branch church to Batsford, in fact it served as a parish church. The appointment of Vicar for Batsford and Moreton alternates between the Bishop of Gloucester and the Lord of the Manor at Batsford. According to tradition, the church was restored and rededicated in the middle of the 16th century. The nave was enlarged in 1790. In 1858 the church was largely reconstructed again and the tower was replaced in 1860. The chancel and south aisle were enlarged in 1892, and the east end of the south aisle has been used as a chapel since 1927.
The Curfew Tower on the corner of Oxford Street dates back to the 16th century. Its bells were cast in 1633 and the tower clock was installed in 1648.
The Redesdale covered market was designed by the architect Sir Ernest George and built in 1887.
Moreton has many buildings in the characteristic “Cotswold Stone” that house antique shops and several hotels.
The war memorial on the High Street commemorates the victims of World War I and II from Moreton-in-Marsh and Batsford.
Transportation
The Stratford and Moreton Tramway was built between 1821 and 1826; it connected Moreton to the Stratford-on-Avon Canal in Stratford. In 1836 a branch line to Shipston-on-Stour was also opened. Originally it was a pure horse-drawn tram . The section between Moreton and Shipston was converted to steam operation in 1889. While operations on the rest of the section to Stratford were discontinued at the beginning of the 20th century, passenger trains ran between Moreton and Shipston until 1929, and Fraxchtverkehr on this route was discontinued in 1960.
The Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railways (OW & W), built between 1845 and 1851, ran through Moreton. The train station in Moreton opened in 1853. The Great Western Railway (GWR) took over the OW & W railway line in 1862 and the Shipston branch line in 1868. The OW&W Railway is now part of the Cotswold Line . The line between Oxford (Wolverton Junction) and Worcester (Norton Junction) was single track, with the exception of Shipton-under-Wychwood and Moreton-in-Marsh in the 1970s.
Surroundings
- Roman fortress
One mile northwest of Moreton, near Dorn, was a Roman fort.
- Stone of the Four Counties
Until the re-division of the counties in 1931 of 2.4 km east of Morton establishment situated marked stone of the four counties (Four Shire Stone) the point of a clash of historic English counties of Gloucestershire, Warwickshire , Worcestershire and Oxfordshire . Since then it has been the meeting place for the last three counties.
- Royal Airforce base
In 1940, during World War II , a Royal Air Force base was built on a large area east of the city and used by Wellington bombers . The former airfield is now used as a fire department training facility, training senior fire officers from units across the UK . Special courses for firefighters (e.g. technical assistance, radiation protection, ship fire fighting) are also offered here. The complex is also the headquarters of the UK Fire Fighting Institute .
Leisure time
A caravan club is located east of the city on the A44, not far from the Wellington Aviation Museum, which is primarily dedicated to the history of the Wellington bombers. Other attractions include the Batsford Arboretum near Batsford and the Mughal- style Sezincote House from the early 19th century and surrounding park.
Web links
Individual references, comments
- ^ AD Mills, A. Room: A Dictionary of British Place-Names . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2003, pp. NN ISBN 0-19-852758-6
- ^ The Four Shires Stone
- ^ Franz-Josef Sehr : East Sussex Fire Brigade . In: Florian Hessen 4/1989 . Munkelt Verlag, 1989, ISSN 0936-5370 , p. 31-32 .