Marton
St Margaret's Church, Marton
Marton is located in Lincolnshire
Marton
Marton
Location within Lincolnshire
Population747 (2011)
OS grid referenceSK839819
• London125 mi (201 km) S
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townGainsborough
Postcode districtDN21
PoliceLincolnshire
FireLincolnshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament

Marton is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated at the junction between the A156 and the A1500. It is 5 miles (8 km) south of Gainsborough, and 11 miles (18 km) north-west of Lincoln. The population of the civil parish (including Gate Burton) was 747 at the 2011 census.[1] The parish borders Brampton, Gate Burton, Sturton by Stow, North Leverton with Habblesthorpe, Cottam, Sturton-le-Steeple and Willingham.[2]

History

In Roman times, it was a way station, slightly north of the larger fort at Torksey, the point just before the Roman road crossed the River Trent. The modern A156 road crosses the ancient Roman road (now the A1500) mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary. Erasmus Darwin, the grandfather of Charles Darwin, descended from a yeoman family who lived for a number of generations at Marton.[3]

In the centre of the village stands the church of St Margaret. The building is essentially of the Norman Conquest period, built using a mixture of Anglo-Saxon and Norman styles.[4] Much of the work of these periods is still retained. It has an 11th-century tower[5] of herringbone masonry, a Saxon cross shaft set in an outer wall and an ancient carved crucifix within. The tall cross in the churchyard is used as a war memorial and it is thought to be a former Medieval market buttercross.

Education

The village has a primary school, the Marton Academy,[6] which was named the winner of the Ashden Sustainable Schools Award in 2015 for its sustainability efforts, which included the installation of solar panels on the roof of a classroom.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  2. ↑ "Marton". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  3. ↑ Darwin, Charles (2002). King-Hele, Desmond (ed.). The Life of Erasmus Darwin. Cambridge University Press. p. 7.
  4. ↑ "Churches of Lincolnshire" (PDF). Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  5. ↑ Discovering Churches and Churchyards by Mark Child,Osprey Publishing, 2007,ISBN 0747806594, 9780747806592, page 42, 43
  6. ↑ "The Marton Academy". Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  7. ↑ "Local school scoops national award for green energy excellence". Normans Media Ltd. 2 November 2015.

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