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Marston Meysey, pronounced and sometimes also spelt Marston Maisey, is a village in Wiltshire, England, lying three miles north east of Cricklade on the county boundary with Gloucestershire. The population of the village taken at the 2011 census was 207. The village has a pub called the Old Spotted Cow,〔(pub's website ), theoldspottedcow.co.uk〕 and not far away is RAF Fairford.〔(Marston Meysey ) at genuki.org.uk〕 The nearest major town is Swindon. ==History== Marston Meysey was part of the hundreds of Highworth, Cricklade and Staple and of the diocese of Gloucester.〔John Gorton, ''A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland'' (1833), p. 773〕 The population was 240 in 1831, but only 185 in 1951.〔 A chapel of ease was built by the de Meysey family in the late 13th century, and a new chapel in 1648, which was in disrepair by the 1870s. In 1869 the Rev. W. H. Ranken became Rector of St Mary's in Meysey Hampton and Vicar of Marston Meysey and soon mounted a public appeal for funds for new buildings. Money collected mainly within Marston Meysey paid for a new church, a vicarage and a Church of England school. The school was closed in 1924, as the number of children had fallen to eighteen, and since then the old school building has been used as a village hall. It is now a grade 2 listed building and is owned by the village.〔(Village Hall ) at marston-meysey.info〕 The 19th century parish church is called St James's.〔(St James's church, Marston Meysey ) at geograph.org.uk〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marston Meysey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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