Moreton-in-marsh
Moreton-in-Marsh (population 3,493) is a small 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 (currently the A429) and also the A44. It is offered by Moreton-in-Marsh railway station on the Cotswold Line. It is reasonably flat as well as low-lying compared to the surrounding Cotswold Hills. The River Evenlode rises near Batsford, runs around the edge of Moreton as well as twists towards Oxford, where it moves into the Thames just east of Eynsham. Simply over 1.5 miles (2.4 km) eastern of Moreton, the Four county rock marked the boundary of the historic counties of Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Oxfordshire, up until the re-organisation of the area boundaries in 1931. Since then it notes the meeting place of Gloucestershire, Warwickshire and also Oxfordshire. Moreton is derived from Old English which implies "Farmstead on the Moor" and "in Marsh" is from henne as well as mersh implying a marsh made use of by birds such as moorhens. A different idea is that 'Marsh' is a corruption of 'March', very early English for boundary.
