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