[3] Due to its proximity from these two rivers, parts of the village have periodically suffered from flooding.

In the early Middle Ages it was a place of some importance, as it was the centre of a hundred named Meretone.

[3] In 1928 a modern bridge was effectively built over the top of the medieval one, and it was hidden from view.

[6] The village church of St Esprit is Grade II* listed.

[7] Marton used to have a a railway station on the former Rugby to Leamington Spa line, which was about half a mile south of the village, but this closed in 1959.