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Marden (All Saints)

MARDEN (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Devizes, hundred of Swanborough, Devizes and N. divisions of Wilts, 7 miles (S. E.) from Devizes; containing 222 inhabitants. It is celebrated as the scene of a battle which took place between Ethelred and the Danes, the latter of whom were victorious. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £8. 17. 6.; patrons and appropriators, the Dean and Chapter of Bristol. The great tithes have been commuted for £190, and the vicarial for £175; the glebe comprises about an acre. The church is an ancient structure principally in the early English style, with a fine Norman arch at the south entrance into the nave, and another separating the nave from the chancel, both richly ornamented.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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