Marton, Lincolnshire

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

St Margaret of Antioch's Church

Churchyard buttercross

The Millennium Stone, an anchor dredged from the River Trent, next to the port of Marton

Marton is a small, sleepy, Lincolnshire village clustered round the point where the modern A156 crosses the ancient Roman road mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary.

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.

In the centre of the village stands the church of Saint Margaret of Antioch. The building is essentially of the Norman Conquest period, built using a mixture of Anglo-Saxon and Norman styles. Much of the work of these periods is still retained. It has an 11th century tower 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.

There is also a restored windmill tower, owned by Lincolnshire County Council.