Marsworth

Marsworth is a village and a civil parish within the unitary authority area of Buckinghamshire, England. It is about 2 miles north of Tring, Hertfordshire and 6 miles east of Aylesbury.

The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, Mæssanwyrth, and means 'Mæssa's enclosure'. Marsworth is first mentioned in the will of Aelfgyfu as granted to Edgar of England who in turn passed it to St Etheldreda's Church belonging to the Bishops of Ely, and later passed into the hands of Brictric, a thegn of Edward the Confessor. After the Norman Conquest Marsworth is recorded in the Domesday Book as in the possession of Robert D'Oyly and was connected to Wallingford, an association which continued into the 17th century. The tenants at this time were the Bassett family and the land was split between six sisters and through their line the estates passed to the Goldingtons at which time the manor becomes recorded as Marsworth with Goldringtons.

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