MARSDEN, a chapelry partly in the parish of HUDDERSFIELD,
but chiefly in that of ALMONDBURY, upper
division of the wapentake of AGBRIGG, West riding of
the county of YORK, 7 miles (S. W. by W.) from Huddersfield,
containing 2330 inhabitants. The living is a
perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
York, endowed with £600 private benefaction, £1000
royal bounty, and £1100 parliamentary grant, and in
the patronage of the Vicar of Almondbury. Independents
and Wesleyan Methodists have each a place of
worship here. At the distance of half a mile, the
Huddersfield and Manchester canal passes under a tunnel
three miles in length.