--- title: "Priors Marston – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Priors Marston, United Kingdom: Priors Marston is a village and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon District of Warwickshire, England, 6 miles (9.7 km)…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/priors-marston" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/priors-marston.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- Village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England · United Kingdom # 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. The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priors_Marston), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 1. Charwelton 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charwelton_BT_Tower) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Priors Marston **Airports:** Birmingham (BHX), 42 km · East Midlands (EMA), 70 km · London Luton (LTN), 72 km\ - Birmingham, West Midlands → Priors Marston 51 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · £6–9 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/birmingham-west-midlands-to-priors-marston) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Birmingham%2C+West+Midlands&to=Priors+Marston) - Nottingham, Leicestershire → Priors Marston 83 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £10–13 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/nottingham-leicestershire-to-priors-marston) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Nottingham%2C+Leicestershire&to=Priors+Marston) - Luton, Luton → Priors Marston 70 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £8–10 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/luton-luton-to-priors-marston) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Luton%2C+Luton&to=Priors+Marston) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Priors%20Marston) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## 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. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 168 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 260 km 3. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 438 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 452 km 5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 488 km If you know how people move in Priors Marston – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cpriors-marston&title=Priors+Marston&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fpriors-marston), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Priors Marston Priors Marston is 28 km from [Coventry](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/coventry), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Hellidon](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hellidon) village and civil parish in Northamptonshire, UK 3.5 km - [Byfield](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/byfield) village and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England 3.5 km - [Priors Hardwick](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/priors-hardwick) village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England, UK 1.8 km - [Boddington](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/boddington) civil parish in Northamptonshire, England, UK 3.8 km - [Stoneton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/stoneton) hamlet and civil parish in Warwickshire, England, UK 2.4 km - [Upper Boddington](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/upper-boddington) village in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom 2.6 km [The place page for Priors Marston](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/priors-marston) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/priors-marston, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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