Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MARDEN

MARDEN, a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred, in Kent. The village stands near an affluent of the river Medway, and on the Reigate, Tunbridge, and Ashford railway, 3 miles WNW of Staplehurst; is a picturesque place; was formerly a market town; and has a post office ‡ under Staplehurst, a railway station with telegraph, and a fair on 11 Oct.—The parish contains also the hamlet of Stile-Bridge. Acres, 7,607. Real property, £11,652. Pop., 2,295. Houses, 452. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to R. Springett, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £828. * Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is ancient but good; consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with a tower; and contains a very curious font of 1652. There are chapels for Independents and Wesleyans, parochial schools, a Church of England school, and charities £55. The parochial schools were built in 1859, at a cost of about £1,600; and are a handsome structure, in the Tudor style. Amhurst, the author of the "Craftsman, ''was a native.—The sub-district contains also two other parishes, and part of another; and is in Maidstone district. Acres, 15,317. Pop. in 1861,4,905. Houses, 906.-The hundred excludes one of the parishes and the part-parish of the subdistrict, but includes another and larger parish; and is in the lathe of Scray. Acres, 23,029. Pop. in 1851, 6,550. Houses, 1,227.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Marden AP/CP       Marden HalfHundred/Hundred       Marden SubD       Kent AncC
Place: Marden

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