MARDEN (UP), a parish in the hundred of WESTBOURN-and-SINGLETON, rape of CHICHESTER, county of SUSSEX, 9 miles (S. "W.) from Midhurst, containing 306 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, with the vicarage of Compton, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. The Rev. Dr. Cox, in 1741, left £ 100 in support of a school for this parish and that of Compton.