In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Marden like this:
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.
Marden through time
Marden is now part of Maidstone district. Click here for graphs and data of how Maidstone has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Marden itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Marden, in Maidstone and Kent | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/6273
Date accessed: 28th April 2024
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