Marden is located about nine miles south of Maidstone, the county town of Kent, England.

It is the second largest parish (in area) in Kent and has a population of approximately 4,000 people.

Although Marden is not mentioned by name in the Domesday Book, Meredenne, as it was known, had a wooden church by the time of the Norman Conquest and was Crown property until the reign of James 1. Marden thrived with the Kentish wool trade until the late eighteenth century. By the 1800s Marden had developed into an agricultural community, particularly with the cultivation of hops and, later, fruit.