Moreton-in-Marsh Hotels and Guest Houses

Moreton-in-Marsh is in the northeastern part of England's Gloucestershire county. The town sits at the crossroads of Fosse Way Roman road (A429) and the A44. Saint David, a parish church of the Church of England, has a chapel of ease in the Bourton-on-the-Hill. The beginnings of Moreton are unclear but there is a theory that was reconstructed somewhere in the middle of the 16th Century. In 1790 the nave was made bigger and then most of the church was redone in 1858 with the town being replaced in 1860. Later in 1892, the south aisle and chancel were made bigger.

Then in 1927, the south aisle's east end started being used as a chapel. A congregation of nonconformist began to meet in Moreton in 1796. It was then recognized as a Congregational church in 1801 with a new chapel being built in 1817. The chapel was then replaced in 1860-61 in the same location by the Congregationalists. It had a mix of Romanesque style and neo-Grecian style. In 1821, the Stratford, and in 1826, the Moreton Tramway, were constructed to link the town to the Stratford-on-Avon Canal in Stratford.

The tramways were drawn by horses, then in 1859 the part of it that went from Moreton to Shipston-on-Stour was changed over to a railway line that used steam locomotives. Between 1845 to 1851 a railway that passes through Moreton was constructed, the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railways. A railway station was completed and opened on 1853. The OWandW was taken over by the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1862 and then the Shipston branch in 1868.

In 1929 the GWR stopped all passenger trains. In 1960 the British Railways stopped the freight shipments and closed the GWR. During WWII , in 1940, a massive are of land that was level got developed just east of Moreton as a RAD Moreton-in-March for the Wellington bombers. The old airfield is now a Fire Service College for senior level fire officers from all over the UK to get further training. It is also the home of a professional group of fire fighters, officers and civilians called the Institution of Fire Engineers.

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