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Up Marden, Sussex

Historical Description

Marden Up or Upmarden, a parish in Sussex, 5½ miles from Rowlands Castle station on the L. & S.W.R. It includes the hamlet of West Marden, with a post office at West Marden; money order and telegraph office, Walderton. Acreage, 2913; population of the civil parish, 310; of the ecclesiastical, 537. The manor is one of the four Meredens mentioned in Domesday book, has always been united with Compton Manor, and belongs now to the Homby family. The living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Compton, in the diocese of Chichester; tithe rent charge,. £355. The church is ancient, but has been partly restored. There is also a church at Compton.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountySussex 
Ecclesiastical parishUp Marden St. Michael 
HundredWestbourne and Singleton 
Poor Law unionWest Bourne 

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Directories & Gazetteers

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DistrictChichester
CountyWest Sussex
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Postal districtPO18
Post TownChichester

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