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Vicarage Road, TRING, HP23 4LU

A public house on Vicarage Road.

Marsworth has three pubs, this is the Red Lion, which is tucked away to the north of the village next to a bridge over the Grand Union Canal. The other two pubs are Image] & Image] which are actually at Startop's End, are on the main road through the village. This little pub is nearer to the heart of the village though, being close to Image

Vicarage Road, Marsworth, Tring, HP23 4LU on the Grand Union Canal

North of the Marsworth flight of locks the canal follows the contours round the low hill on which the Church is built. Much of the land between the Church and the canal is undeveloped and is managed as meadow. See Image See Image for links to other pictures of, or visible from, this stretch of the Grand Union Canal.

Marsworth is a village in Buckinghamshire, about two miles north of Tring and six miles east of Aylesbury. The village, whose name is Anglo Saxon in origin - Mæssanwyrth meaning 'Mæssa's enclosure' - grew significantly at the end of the 18th Century with the construction of the Grand Junction (now Grand Union) Canal, which passes through it. There are records of a church in Marsworth since the 12th century. All Saints Church was further extended in the 14th and 15th centuries. Despite further restoration in the first part of the 19th century by 1880 the church was in a deplorable condition and the newly appointed vicar, the Rev. F. W. Ragg, with the help of local men whom he trained in stonework, set about restoring it over the next 25 years. The stone-carving that resulted - some of which is shown here - is much in evidence within the Church, particularly that which surrounds the beautiful East window in which are represented scenes from the lives of Saints Augustine, Aidan, Bede and Hugh, and which bears the dedication: "This window, the work of F W Ragg was filled with glass chiefly by members of Trinity College Cambridge, in sympathy with the labour he bestowed for the good of Marsworth on the fabric of this church 1882-1891." The badly weathered grave of Frederick William Ragg (1845-1929) is on the North side of the graveyard in which there are also a number of Polish graves, a reminder of the camp of 900 Polish refugees that existed at Marsworth in the 1950s.

Marsworth is a village in Buckinghamshire, about two miles north of Tring and six miles east of Aylesbury. The village, whose name is Anglo Saxon in origin - Mæssanwyrth meaning 'Mæssa's enclosure' - grew significantly at the end of the 18th Century with the construction of the Grand Junction (now Grand Union) Canal, which passes through it. There are records of a church in Marsworth since the 12th century. All Saints Church was further extended in the 14th and 15th centuries. Despite further restoration in the first part of the 19th century by 1880 the church was in a deplorable condition and the newly appointed vicar, the Rev. F. W. Ragg, with the help of local men whom he trained in stonework, set about restoring it over the next 25 years. The stone-carving that resulted - some of which is shown here - is much in evidence within the Church, particularly that which surrounds the beautiful East window in which are represented scenes from the lives of Saints Augustine, Aidan, Bede and Hugh, and which bears the dedication: "This window, the work of F W Ragg was filled with glass chiefly by members of Trinity College Cambridge, in sympathy with the labour he bestowed for the good of Marsworth on the fabric of this church 1882-1891." The badly weathered grave of Frederick William Ragg (1845-1929) is on the North side of the graveyard in which there are also a number of Polish graves, a reminder of the camp of 900 Polish refugees that existed at Marsworth in the 1950s.

The Church is dedicated to All Saints and was probably in existence in the 12th century, with additions in the 14th and 15th century. Much restoration was carried out in Victorian times by the Rev. F. W. Ragg, who carried out much of the restoration work himself. The tower has six bells, the oldest from 1662, and there is an active bell-ringing team. Some of the pictures of the Church. Image Image Image Image Image Image Image

Marsworth is a village in Buckinghamshire, about two miles north of Tring and six miles east of Aylesbury. The village, whose name is Anglo Saxon in origin - Mæssanwyrth meaning 'Mæssa's enclosure' - grew significantly at the end of the 18th Century with the construction of the Grand Junction (now Grand Union) Canal, which passes through it. There are records of a church in Marsworth since the 12th century. All Saints Church was further extended in the 14th and 15th centuries. Despite further restoration in the first part of the 19th century by 1880 the church was in a deplorable condition and the newly appointed vicar, the Rev. F. W. Ragg, with the help of local men whom he trained in stonework, set about restoring it over the next 25 years. The stone-carving that resulted is much in evidence within the Church, particularly that which surrounds the beautiful East window in which are represented scenes from the lives of Saints Augustine, Aidan, Bede and Hugh, and which bears the dedication: "This window, the work of F W Ragg was filled with glass chiefly by members of Trinity College Cambridge, in sympathy with the labour he bestowed for the good of Marsworth on the fabric of this church 1882-1891." He lies in the churchyard in which there are also a number of Polish graves, a reminder of the camp of 900 Polish refugees that existed at Marsworth in the 1950s.