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.

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 Up Marden from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Up 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