MARDEN, a parish in the hundred of BROXASH,
county of HEREFORD, 5 miles (N. N. E.) from Hereford,
containing, with the chapelry of Amberley, 815 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage,, in the peculiar
jurisdiction of the Dean of Hereford, rated in the
king's books at £ 5. 13. 5., and hi the patronage of the
Dean and Chapter of Hereford. The church, dedicated
to St. Ethelbert, stands on the banks of the Lugg, over
the spot where King Ethelbert was buried, and where
a well, which still exists, is superstitiously said to have
miraculously sprung up at the time the edifice was dedicated
to his memory.