East Marden, Sussex

Historical Description

Marden, East, a parish in Sussex, 4 miles from Singleton station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 12 SW of Midhurst. It has a post office under Chichester; money order office, Harting; telegraph office, Walderton. Acreage, 938; population of the civil parish, 74; of the ecclesiastical, 103. The manor is one of four Meredens mentioned in Domesday book, was given after the Conquest to Roger, Earl Montgomery, and was annexed in the time of Henry I. to the prebend of East Marden, then founded in Chichester Cathedral. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; value, £110 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Chichester. The church is Early English, and was well restored in 1875.

Administration

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

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for East Marden from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Marden, East)

Maps

Online maps of East Marden are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Sussex newspapers online:

• Mid Sussex Times
• Chichester Express and West Sussex Journal
• Sussex Agricultural Express
• Hastings and St Leonards Observer
• Sussex Advertiser
• Brighton Gazette
• Bexhill-on-Sea Observer