MARDEN, a parish in the hundred of MARDEN, lathe of SCRAY, county of KENT, 4 miles (N. byE.) from Goudhurst, containing 2051 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at AT. 18. 4., and in the patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. There is a place of worship for Independents. Sir Charles Booth, in 1792, left certain property to be vested in the three per cents., now bearing an annual interest of about £44, for the support of a school, in which two hundred children are educated on the Madras system. A fair is held on the 10th of October.