MARSTON (BUTLER'S), a parish in the Kington division of the hundred of KINGTON, county of WARWICK, 1 mile (S. W. by S.) from Kington, containing 275 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £8. 3. 4., endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. Near it is an old mansion of stone, now used as a kennel for the hounds of the Warwickshire hunt. Upon an artificial mount on the green is a decayed elm, of remarkably large dimensions, capable of containing twelve persons, and formed by nature into the appearance of a grotto.