Village Diary
This page is to keep you up to date with events around Marden parish (in black) and a little beyond (in blue). If you know of an event that is not listed, please email the diary editor
Places to visit outside Marden are grouped together at the foot of this page.
1. Regular Events
Church Services on Sundays – See 'Current Services' for more details.
Every Tuesday 2.30 Sporting Memories, Marden Cricket & Hockey Club
Every Wednesday in term time 9.30–11am 'Little Fishes' playgroup, Vestry Hall
Every Friday 10am Village Café in the Vestry Hall
Every Saturday 2.00 pm Marden Walking Group walks from the Library (approx 2–3 miles)
2. Diary Dates
Wed. 24 – Sat. 27 July Theater Group 'Sister Act', Vestry Hall
Thursday 1 August 7.45 WI Meeting, Vestry Hall
Friday 2 August 12.30 Marie Curie Ploughman's Lunch, Vestry Hall
Sunday 4 August 3.30 Cream Tea, Vicarage Lawn
Saturday 10 August 7.30 Antiphony Concert, Church
Sunday 11 August 3.30 Cream Tea, Vicarage Lawn
Sunday 18 August 3.30 Cream Tea, Vicarage Lawn
Monday 19 August
12.30 Community Lunch, Vestry Hall
7.00 Marden in Bloom AGM, Vestry Hall
Thursday 22 August 6.00 Three Musketeers, Southons Field
Sunday 25 August 3.30 Cream Tea, Vicarage Lawn
Sunday 1 September 3.30 Cream Tea, Vicarage Lawn
Saturday 7 September Bulb Sale, outside Unicorn
Sat. 7 – Sun. 8 September 11.00 Art in the Garden, Mill Farm House, Hunton Road
Tuesday 10 September 7.30 Horticultural Society, Vestry Hall
Saturday 14 September
8.30 Men's Breakfast, Memorial Hall
Ride & Stride for Kent Churches
Sunday 15 September 3.30 Messy Church, Vestry Hall
Monday 16 September 12.30 Community Lunch, Vestry Hall
Saturday 21 September 6.00 Harvest Quiz & Supper, Vestry Hall
Wednesday 25 September 7.30 Marden Society Vestry Hall
Saturday 28 September Horticultural Society trip to Wisley
Sunday 29 September East Peckham Silver Band Concert, Church
Saturday 5 October Scarecrow Safari
Saturday 9 November 8.30 Men's Breakfast, Memorial Hall
Sunday 22 December Tractor Run
3. Places to visit with children
NOTE: National Trust properties (marked NT below) often have special children's events over the holidays.
Also Garden Centres are also often a good place for free holiday attractions.
Please check opening times of all venues on line.
Please send and suggestions to the WEB MASTER.
Adventure Kidz, Aylesford
Allhallows beach
Allington Lock next to Kent Life FREE. It's a lovely wander by the river, has a big Beefeater style pub and you can jump on a little boat to take a trip to Maidstone and back.
Badgers Hill Farm
Beaney Institute Museum, Canterbury FREE
Bedgebury Pinetum with new Gruffalo Trail and code cracking Quest trail
Bewl Water
Bluewater nature trail
Bodiam Castle NT
Botany Bay
FREE
Broaditch Farm
Buttercups goat sanctuary
Buzy bees, New Ash
Canterbury Cathedral web site
Capstone Park
Chatham Dockyard
Cheeky Dino, Maidstone
Chatam Ski Centre, there's the toboggan run and sometimes the inflatable donuts on the mini slope. It's right next to Capstone Park
Cliffe Pools is amazing
Cobtree Park - next to Kentlife (big play park £1.50 parking).
Curleys Farm
Cyclopark
Danson Park - has play park & water play
Dartford Central park is free! Mini splash play area.
FREE
Diggerland
Dover Castle
EH
Dunorlan Park, Tunbridge Wells FREE
Drusillas, near Alfriston
Eagle Heights
Eltham Palace grounds FREE
Eynesford stream
FREE
Folkestone Lower Leas coastal Park and the fountains at Folkestone harbour make a good free day out
FREE
Folkestone Museum
Friars Aylesford
FREE
Gillingham Strand
FREE
Godstone Farm
Guildhall Museum in Rochester
Grain seaside is always good
FREE
Gravesend has the fort gardens. Chantry House Museum is FREE and the bunker tunnels are £1! There's the prom and the park. A little cafe. A pretty, short walk around. It's lovely there. It's also part of the wheels of time trail around Kent.
Greenwich Ecology Park is free and often has special events in the holidays FREE
Groombridge Hall place - lovely, FREE to enter and beautiful grounds. Lots of trees and shade plus a little stream running through it
Hemsley Conservation Centre
Hempsted Forest FREE
Herne Bay - good for crabbing
FREE
Huguenot Museum - Quite small but might be interesting, particularly to older children, and is part of the Wheels of Time
Hobbledown Farm
Hop Farm
Howletts Wildlife Animal Park
Hythe has a flat promenade perfect for bikes and scooters.
FREE
Ightham Mote NT
Jeskyns Park
Kearsney Abbey is a fab day
Kent Life
Kingsdown beach
FREE
Knole Park, Sevenoaks NT
Leeds castle
Little Fant Farm,
Little Street, Maidstone
Loose village stream
FREE
Lower Leas costal Folkestone
FREE
Lullingston Country Park
Maidstone Family Nature Trail, Allington to Teston FREE
Maidstone Leisure Centre - has soft play and Ice Hills. It's also right next to Mote Park in Maidstone so great for a morning of activity then a picnic and a wander in the fresh air
Maidstone Museum web site.
Manor Park
Marsh Farm
Marsh Maze and fun yard
Milton Creek country park
Minis Bay
FREE
Monkeybizz, Medway
Mote Park
Owletts
Oxleas Woods is lovely
Penenden Heath play area and woods
FREE
Rare Breeds Centre
, Woodchurch
Richborough Roman Fort and Amphitheatre - Younger children may be bored, but older ones who can listen to the audio commentary and read the panels might find it interesting. Really good for any kids learning about Romans.
Riverside Park
Rochester Castle
EH
Rochester Cathedral web site
Ruxley Manor - check out events
Shorne Woods Country Park
Sissinghurst Castle Gardens NT
Southwater country park. Has a mini beach, dinosaurs, kids park etc and it’s FREE
Swanley Park
Teapot Island, Yalding
Temple Manor (weekends only)
Teston Park
FREE
Tilgate Park (fantastic)
Trosley Park - lots of shade
(Trottiscliffe) FREE
Tyland Barn - Kent wildlife trust
Union Windmill, Cranbrook
Upnor castle
Walmer paddling pool
Wildwood, between Canterbury & Herne
Wingham
Wildlife Park
Woodland Trust, Bearsted
Yalding River Path FREE
A D V E R T I S E M E N T
The Vestry Hall in the centre of Marden Village is normally available for hire.
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