Moreton-in-marsh
Moreton-in-Marsh (population 3,493) is a tiny market community in the Evenlode Valley, within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Gloucestershire, England. The town stands at the crossroads of the Fosse Way Roman road (now the A429) and also the A44. It is served by Moreton-in-Marsh train station on the Cotswold Line. It is reasonably flat and low-lying compared with the surrounding Cotswold Hills. The River Evenlode rises near Batsford, runs around the side of Moreton as well as twists in the direction of Oxford, where it flows into the Thames just east of Eynsham. Simply over 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometres) east of Moreton, the Four county stone noted the border of the historical areas of Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire as well as Oxfordshire, till the re-organisation of the region limits in 1931. Ever since it notes the meeting point of Gloucestershire, Warwickshire and Oxfordshire. Moreton is originated from Old English which implies "Farmstead on the Moor" and "in Marsh" is from henne and mersh implying a marsh utilized by birds such as moorhens. An alternate idea is that 'Marsh' is a corruption of 'March', very early English for boundary.