Priors Marston
Priors Marston is a village and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon District of Warwickshire, England, 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Southam.
Priors Marston is a village and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon District of Warwickshire, England, 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Southam. The Oxford Canal and Jurassic Way both run nearby. According to the 2001 Census the population of the parish is 506, increasing to 579 at the 2011 Census, most of whom live in the village. In the village's toponym, "Priors" records the fact the village belonged to St Mary's Priory in Coventry. "Marston" combines the Old English words Merse referring to a lake which formed a fishery in the early history of the village and tun meaning a settlement. The village has a primary school called The Priors School. The school was originally a state school, opened in 1847. However, in August 1996 the school was forced to close. After a month of intensive fundraising and planning the school re-opened, offering free education to village residents, and also accepting fee paying pupils from further afield. The school raised over £1.2m during 15 years of self-regulation until 1 September 2011, when it became one of the first of 22 new free schools to open in the United Kingdom. This returned the school to state funding but was independently managed.
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Worth seeing in and around Priors Marston
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Charwelton BT Tower
Charwelton BT Tower is a telecommunication tower built of reinforced concrete at Charwelton near Byfield, Northamptonshire, England. It is 118 metres tall and one of the few British towers built of reinforced concrete.
2.2 km · telecommunication tower in England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Priors Marston
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 42 km · East Midlands (EMA), 70 km · London Luton (LTN), 72 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Priors Marston51 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · £6–9
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Priors Marston83 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £10–13
- Luton, Luton → Priors Marston70 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £8–10
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No local-transport research exists yet for Priors Marston
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Priors Marston. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Priors Marston is 28 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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