{"id":30,"date":"2010-11-27T13:54:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T13:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/history.onclick.co.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2015-12-05T19:07:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T19:07:35","slug":"timeline","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/?page_id=30","title":{"rendered":"Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
2007<\/span><\/th>\nFirst commercial vineyard planted, Plain Road<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003<\/span><\/th>\nMarden holds first Village Festival<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000<\/span><\/th>\nMillenium Walk planted<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1995-96<\/span><\/th>\nSutton Forge, Barnes Walk, Roundel Way built<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1995<\/span><\/th>\nRestricted parking (yellow lines) throughout village<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1994<\/span><\/th>\nParish Council Centenary celebration<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1993<\/span><\/th>\nFirst bottle banks in Car Park
\nJanuary – Fire destroys M J Pallets & Inprint Printers in Pattenden Lane
\nJuly – Tyre dump fire in Pattenden Lane pollutes River<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1992-93<\/span><\/th>\nExtension to Cemetery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1990-92<\/span><\/th>\nSchool extension<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1987<\/span><\/th>\nNew railway station building and Meades Close built<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1986<\/span><\/th>\nChantry Place demolished, Bramley Court built<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1985<\/span><\/th>\nLime Close built<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1984<\/span><\/th>\nSaw Mill demolished. New village sign unveiled, to replace the original<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1983<\/span><\/th>\nMedical Centre and Ballard Close built<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1982<\/span><\/th>\nPublic Conveniences officially opened<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1981<\/span><\/th>\nVillage sign competition held<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1980<\/span><\/th>\nNew railway bridge, Pattenden Lane<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1977<\/span><\/th>\nNew Library and Car Park built, opened by Councillor TW Kemsley on 4th April. Sovereigns Way, Barrel Arch Close, Lucks Way and Cockpits Estate built<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1971<\/span><\/th>\nElectric street lighting installed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1969<\/span><\/th>\nJanuary 4th – Train crash in fog, 4 people killed, 11 injured<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1968<\/span><\/th>\nNew Playing Field opens<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1965<\/span><\/th>\nNew Vicarage built<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1962<\/span><\/th>\nStained glass East window and North and South Sanctuary lancets designed by Patrick Reytiens made for the Parish Church<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1953<\/span><\/th>\nQueen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, visits Fruit Show<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1951<\/span><\/th>\nChantry Road built<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1950<\/span><\/th>\nBeginning of Pattenden Lane Industrial Estate. Library transfers to Memorial Hall<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1949<\/span><\/th>\nSouth Road built<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1944<\/span><\/th>\nJuly 3rd – Flying bomb shot down by anti-aircraft fire falls on Army Camp in Pattenden Lane, killing 11 & seriously injuring 8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1943-44<\/span><\/th>\nLaying of the PLUTO pipeline<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1941<\/span><\/th>\nFeb 4th – Two bombs fall on houses and shops in Maidstone Road killing 5 & seriously injuring 3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1940<\/span><\/th>\nSept 5th – Franz von Werra (German ace pilot) shot down over Marden
\nSept 15th – At climax of Battle of Britain, Hurricane pilot bales out over Church Farm
\nOct 25th – During attack on Maidstone, Messerschmidt plane is brought down by British planes, pilot injured<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1937<\/span><\/th>\nCouncil Houses in Howland Road built<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1934<\/span><\/th>\nChurch School converted to Memorial Hall as a memorial to Mr Edward Day<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1933<\/span><\/th>\nFirst sewers in Marden<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1930<\/span><\/th>\nMarden Market closes. Feb 10th – plane crashes in Marden en route from Paris to London, honeymoon couple killed, 4 people survive<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1928<\/span><\/th>\nHop Pickers Hospital opens<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1926<\/span><\/th>\nMarden Womens’ Institute inaugurated<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1922<\/span><\/th>\nA Library Service opens in Village School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1913<\/span><\/th>\nMaidstone and District Bus Co. open bus line from Maidstone to Goudhurst and Hawkhurst via Marden – Service 6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1909<\/span><\/th>\nChurch bells recast from 6 to 8 bells<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1907<\/span><\/th>\nParish Pump locked up due to contamination. Founding of Working Men’s Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1904<\/span><\/th>\nGas street lighting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1899<\/span><\/th>\nParish Pump erected by Parish Council<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1896-7<\/span><\/th>\nNew school buildings erected to accomodate 500 children<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1895<\/span><\/th>\n3 deliveries of mail and 3 dispatches daily, 1 on Sundays<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1887<\/span><\/th>\nTo mark Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, Vestry at south east corner of Church is built, with a generous contribution from the Cornwallis family<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1882<\/span><\/th>\nStocks removed from ancient Court House to the Church<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1874<\/span><\/th>\nLetters arrive at 7am and are despatched at 7pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1871<\/span><\/th>\nPopulation is 2333<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1864<\/span><\/th>\nRoman gold coin found at Boy’s Spur Farm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1859<\/span><\/th>\nChurch School built by public subscription of \u00a31600<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1851<\/span><\/th>\nUndersea cable from Dover to Calais completed, telegraph in railway station can communicate with Paris<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1842<\/span><\/th>\nSouth Eastern and Chatham Railway comes to Marden – there are 6 trains a day<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1841<\/span><\/th>\nPopulation is 2676, with 2 inns, 6 beerhouses, 7 grocers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1840-41<\/span><\/th>\nMammoth fossil found in cuttings for the railway<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1839<\/span><\/th>\nLetters arrive at 8am and are dispatched at 6pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1838<\/span><\/th>\nHenry Newish and John Hurt and their families emigrate to New South Wales assisted by the Parish<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1821<\/span><\/th>\nPopulation is 2051, with 1100 males and 951 females living in 353 dwellings<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1804<\/span><\/th>\nParish is divided into 4 districts for Poor Relief – Beech, Plain, Pattenden, Stilebridge and Wadhurst Green<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1799<\/span><\/th>\nApproximately 1500 inhabitants living in 300 houses<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1794<\/span><\/th>\nMarden described as “3 streets badly paved” and the houses “but meanly built”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1793<\/span><\/th>\nMoney raised from the Turnpike was \u00a321.11s.3d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1790<\/span><\/th>\nWorkhouse erected at a cost of \u00a3529.2s.8d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1763<\/span><\/th>\nParish Church beautified by subscription, at a cost of \u00a3396.3s.9d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1755<\/span><\/th>\nMaplesden Charity is instituted<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1707 to 1725<\/span><\/th>\nMary Allen and her son leave money to the poor from the rent of land<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1666<\/span><\/th>\nPest House at Beech Farm is used to house victims of the Great Plague<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1653-58<\/span><\/th>\nDuring Commonwealth St Michael’s font is destroyed by the vicar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1648<\/span><\/th>\nThe Earl of Pembroke purchases Marden<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1642-46<\/span><\/th>\nDuring the Civil War cannon and cannon balls are made at the Weald iron foundry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1640<\/span><\/th>\nThree clothiers from the area invent a new process of dyeing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
approx. 1635<\/span><\/th>\nMarden passes from Charles I to Sir Edward Browne and Mr Christopher Favell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1632<\/span><\/th>\nEdward Maplesden leaves rents from a house and land to the poor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1607<\/span><\/th>\nJames I makes Merdenne over to Sir Henry Brown<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1569<\/span><\/th>\n420 families are registered in Merdenne
\nRichard Turner leaves proceeds of land to be devoted to the use of the poor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1560<\/span><\/th>\nMarriage and burial records begin in the Church<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1559<\/span><\/th>\nBaptism registers begin in the Church<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1557<\/span><\/th>\n300 families with 500 adult communicants in Merdenne<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1554<\/span><\/th>\nFire destroys the chancel and chapel roof of St Michaels Church
\nThe Wyatt Rebellion – Sir Thomas Isley of Reed Court is executed and his land is given to Sir John Baker, the Attorney General<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1525<\/span><\/th>\nHenry VIII takes money from Merdenne to be given to Cardinal Wolsey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1400<\/span><\/th>\nThe Jack Cade rebellion march on London – Merdenne men John Rolf, John Nash and Thomas Peppymbury are later pardoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1381<\/span><\/th>\nJohn Monselow found not guilty of plotting to burn down Maidstone in the Peasants Revolt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1352<\/span><\/th>\nFirst recorded vicar is William de Welde<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1348-9<\/span><\/th>\nBlack Death<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1336<\/span><\/th>\nBeginnings of the cloth trade in Merdenne when Act of Edward III invites Flemish weavers to England<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1291<\/span><\/th>\nQueen Eleanor, widow of Henry II dies and Merdenne with the Hundred of Milton is returned to her son Edward I, valued at \u00a322.13s.8d per annum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1283<\/span><\/th>\nEdward I commands an annual market to be held in Merdenne which continues for 500 years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1272-1307<\/span><\/th>\nDuring reign of Edward I a man is fined half a mark for burning 32 trees for charcoal “in the wood of the Lord King”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1235<\/span><\/th>\n20 tree trunks are cut from the woods of Henry III at Mereden and presented to the Abbot of St Radigund at Dover for the building of a Refectory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1216-17<\/span><\/th>\nPort Reeve of Milton, William Kensham, musters men of Maeredaen to harry French troops who were supporting the barons against King John<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1170<\/span><\/th>\nMaeredaen is held for the Crown by Richard de Luci, Lord Chief Justice of England who retires to found the Abbey of Lesnes near Dartford<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1066<\/span><\/th>\nAt the Domesday survey the manor and hundred of Maere Denn are part of the King’s manor of Milton<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dark Ages<\/span><\/th>\nHerdsmen bring their stock to feed on acorns in clearings (dens) in the forest of Anderida<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pre-history<\/span><\/th>\n13 Bronze Age objects left in a pottery vessel. Various Stone Age axes and tools deposited in the area. Mammoth dies, leaving a fossil which was discovered during the cutting of the railway line in 1840-1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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