South Marston
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South Marston is a village in North-east Wiltshire, England. The name Marston derives from the common English village name meaning marsh farm. It is part of the Borough of Swindon.
[edit] Demographics
Over the last twenty years, South Marston has changed dramatically. Previously it was a totally agricultural community, with most of the inhabitants working on the various farms that surrounded it and made up the bulk of the area of the parish. Now most of the current inhabitants either commute to nearby Swindon or finding employment in the villages own (not so) small industrial estate which has become the home of Honda UK Ltd at the old Vickers manufacturing plant.
[edit] History
It is said that there were Roman remains just outside South Marston (on a field of Rowborough Farm), which have long disappeared. Certainly one of their major roads, the Ermin Way from Cirencester to Speen, runs close to the south west side of the village, separating it from Stratton St Margaret, and there was a Roman station at Durocornovium (now Wanborough) just 2 miles south of the village.
The name Marston is from Saxon origins, pre-dating the Norman arrival in 1066 however it is not mentioned in the doomsday book of 1086.
