Marden, Herefordshire

Marden is a village and civil parish in the English county of Herefordshire.

Marden
The Old School House
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Marden is located in Herefordshire
Marden
Marden
Location within Herefordshire
Unitary authority
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townHereford
Postcode districtHR1
PoliceWest Mercia
FireHereford and Worcester
AmbulanceWest Midlands
UK Parliament

Marden village is approximately 7 miles (11 km) due north of the city of Hereford, and is contiguous with the hamlets of Walker's Green and Paradise Green. The parish also includes the hamlet of Burmarsh to the south of the village.

The Marches Way long-distance footpath passes through the village and, heading south, then crosses Sutton Walls Hill Fort.[1]

A company growing, packing, importing and exporting soft fruit and asparagus is based in the village, and employs more than 2,400 people, predominantly Romanians and Bulgarians, to work on its farms in Herefordshire and Kent.[2]

The cattle breeder, Richard de Quincey, lived in Marden from 1922 until his death in 1965.[3]

References
  1. Hereford and Leominster (Landranger Maps) (B2 ed.), Ordnance Survey, 2007, ISBN 978-0-319-22953-8
  2. Taylor, Jerome (9 July 2009). "Revealed: Scandal of Britain's fruit-farm workers". The Independent. Retrieved 14 March 2016. Registration required.
  3. "Mr R. S. de Q. Quincey". The Times. No. 56517. London. 31 December 1965. p. 12.

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