Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MARDEN-UP, or UPMARDEN

MARDEN-UP, or UPMARDEN, a parish in Westbourne district, Sussex; 7 miles SW of Midhurst r. station. It includes the tything of West Marden; which has a postoffice under Emsworth. Acres, 2,928. Real property, £2,060. Pop., 366. Houses, 66. The manor is one of the four Meredens mentioned in Domesday book; has always been united with Compton manor; and belongs now to Admiral Sir Phipps Hornby. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Compton, in the diocese of Chichester. The church is ancient.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Up Marden CP/Ch       Westbourne RegD/PLU       Sussex AncC
Place names: MARDEN UP     |     MARDEN UP OR UPMARDEN     |     UPMARDEN
Place: Up Marden

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