More information : A vill was mentioned at Marston in 1155; in the
eastern corner of the present Marston estate these old fields
are particularly clear, with garden-plots lining the village
street, now a shallow hollow-way leading from Tytherington to
Marston Moat.
Air photographs show a pattern of field banks, forming small
enclosures, centred at ST 769447. (1-2)
The remains described by Miss Overend are visible as scarps and
depressions, sited as above. Their overall height is up to 1.2m,
and their major destruction seems to have been due to early
18th c. emparking, probably associated with the building of
Marston House (a). Two small, unnamed, buildings are shown in
the area on the Tithe Map of 1839 and there is a local tradition
of a farm, called Bushes Farm at the southern end of the
hollow-way (ST 7699 4466), but this name does not appear on any
map.
Surveyed at 1:2500. (3)
Medieval settlement and fields, ST 74 SE 17 and 18, may be
associated with Marston village. (4)
ST 769448. Deserted medieval settlement in field now used for
permanent pasture, south west of Tytherington Bridge with well
preserved earthworks of house platforms and hollow ways. Scheduled. (5)
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