Moreton-in-Marsh
Moreton-in-Marsh is a town in
Gloucestershire,
England. The name “Moreton” derives from “Farmstead on the Moor”, while “Marsh” is a corruption of “march”, which means “boundary”. Moreton is located on the boundary of four
counties. A stone monument, the
Four Shires Stone, stands on the boundary of Gloucestershire,
Warwickshire,
Worcestershire, and
Oxfordshire.
The town's environs are quite flat and low-lying. During
World War II, a large area of this flat land to the east of the town was made into an airfield and used by
Wellington Bombers. The former airfield is now the UK
Fire Service College, where firefighters are trained. In the nineteenth century the town was the southern terminus of the horse-drawn
Stratford and Moreton Tramway.
Moreton has a museum devoted to the
Wellington bomber.
Moreton is the headquarters of the railway spot-hire company
Cotswold Rail.
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Town Web-site*
Article on the Four Shire Stone*
A few old postcards of Moreton-in-Marsh
