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MardenMarden is 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 west-north-west of Staplehurst; is a picturesque place; was formerly a market town; and has a post office under Staplehurst, a money order office and a savings bank, a railway station with telegraph, and a fair on 10 October. The parish contains also the hamlet of Stile Bridge. Acres, 7,607. Real property in 1860, £11,652. Population in 1861, 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 with a habitable glebe house. 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 of £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. Population in 1861, 4,905. Houses 906. The hundred excludes one of the parishes and the part parish of the sub-district, but includes another and larger parish; and is in the lathe of Scray. Acres, 23,029. Population in 1851, 6,550. Houses, 1,227. Stile Bridge pp.is a hamlet in Marden parish; on the river Beult, 3 miles northwest of Staplehurst. It has a post office under Staplehurst.1 A great deal of records are also becoming available via the Marden Village Society History Group. See the record categories below for links to some of the research data on that web site. The Marden Society has an online archive of their journal, the "Parish Pump".1John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales. (London, England: A. Fullerton & Co., 1870). 2Edward Hasted, ed. and comp. The town and parish of Marden: Town and manors, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 9 (1798), pp. 291-299. Marden Bibliography-- various. 'Archaeologia Cantiana'. Publisher: Kent, England: Kent Archaeological Society, various dates. Volumes 1 through 139 are available to view free on the Kent Archaeological Society website.  [Note: The following volumes can be found on archive.org: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (1876), 11, 12, 13 (1880), 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 32, 34, 35, vol. 1907 supplement.]
Great Britain, Public Record Office. 'Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public Record Office--Edward II, Vol. 1. 1307-1313'Each volume has own index. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch. Great Britain, Public Record Office. 'Inquisitions and assessments relating to feudal aids : with other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office, A. D. 1284-1431', Vol. 3. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch. Great Britain, Exchequer. 'The book of fees commonly called testa de nevill, pt. 3'. The Book of fees contains information about the holdings of feudal tenants. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch. Hall, Hubert, 1857-1944. 'The Red book of the Exchequer - Liber rubeus de Scaccario, Vol. 3'. The Red book of the Exchequer was a register intended to preserve important documents comprising charters, statutes of the realm, public acts (Placita), private deeds and ordinances, correspondence. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch. Glencross, Reginald Morshead. 'Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Vol. 1. 1559-1571'. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch. Hasted, Edward. 'The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent; Containing the antient and present state of it, civil and ecclesiastical; collected from public records, and other authorities: illustrated with maps, views, antiquities, etc. The second edition, improved, corrected, and continued to the present time'. 12 volumes. Publisher: Canterbury: Printed by W. Bristow, 1797-1801. URL: British History Online. Hussey, Arthur. 'Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey, mentioned in Domesday book, and those of more recent date'. Publisher: London J.R. Smith,(1852). Letters, Dr. Samantha. 'Kent', Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516 (2005). URL: British History Online. Page, William, 1861-1934, ed.. 'The Victoria history of the county of Kent'. Publisher: London: Constable (1908). URL: British History Online. Sharp, J. E. E. S., ed.. 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward I, File 39', Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 2: Edward I. Published:(1906), pp. 315-323. URL: British History Online. Sharp, J. E. E. S., ed.. 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry III, File 45', Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 1: Henry III. Published:(1904), pp. 296-302. URL: British History Online. Location of RecordsThe following list of records is not intended to be exhaustive. There are many records that are awaiting discovery in archive offices throughout Kent and England. This list is intended only to set out those records that are available via at least two relatively easy-to-access avenues. If you have used or discover a record that would be of benefit to other researchers, that is not on this list, please send me an email with the details of the archive - name, address and archival call number. Census
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1801 - 1,660
1811 - 1,804
1821 - 2,051
1831 - 2,051
1841 - 2,076
1851 - 2,296
1861 - 2,295
1871 - 2,333
1881 - 2,321
1891 - 2,321
1901 - 2,321
1911 - 2,614
1921 - 2,484
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Canterbury 26.1 mi.
Ashford 16.2 mi.
Chatham 13.1 mi.
Cranbrook 5.3 mi.
Dartford 22.6 mi.
Deptford 31.3 mi.
Dover 35.4 mi.
Faversham 19.8 mi.
Folkestone 29.6 mi.
Gravesend 19.5 mi.
Greenwich 29.9 mi.
Hythe 26.8 mi.
Maidstone 6.9 mi.
Margate 41.2 mi.
Milton Regis 15.9 mi.
Queenborough 20.3 mi.
Ramsgate 41.6 mi.
Rochester 15.0 mi.
Sandwich 37.7 mi.
Sheerness 22.0 mi.
Tenterden 11.1 mi.
Tonbridge 9.4 mi.
Woolwich 29.0 mi.