MARSTON, a parish in the hundred of BULLINGTON,
county of OXFORD, 1 mile (N. N. E.) from Oxford,
containing 340 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford,
endowed with £400 private benefaction, £800 royal
bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the
patronage of the Rev. T. H. Whorwood. The church
is dedicated to St. Nicholas. The river Cherwell forms
part of the boundary of this parish.