Marston_Moreteyne
Marston Moreteyne
Village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England
Marston Moreteyne (or Marston Moretaine[3]) is a large village and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire, England, located on the A421 between Bedford and Milton Keynes. The population was 4,560 at the 2001 census,[4] and 4,556 at the 2011 census.[1] The village is served by Millbrook railway station, approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) away on the Marston Vale Line.
The place-name 'Marston Moretaine' is first attested in an Anglo-Saxon charter of 969, where it appears as Mercstuninga. It appears as Merestone in the Domesday Book of 1086. The name derives from the Old English mersc-tūn meaning 'town or settlement by a marsh'. It was held by the family of Moretaine, from Mortain in Normandy in France.[5] Local roadsigns use either the "Moreteyne" and "Moretaine" spellings inconsistently. The official name of the civil parish was changed in 2018 from Marston Moretaine to Marston Moreteyne following a consultation by Central Bedfordshire Council.[6]
Sir Thomas Snagge lived in the village in the 16th century. He owned the manor of Marston Moreteyne.[7]