New Marston seems to have received a mains water supply by the end of the 1870s and mains drainage by the 1920s [REF].
New Marston's main development was in the 20th century, shortly after 216 acres of land were incorporated within the boundary of Oxford City in 1929,[REF] when the County Borough of Oxford developed estates of council houses around Marston Road and north of Headley Way.