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Marsden Park

Marsden Park bandstand (Circa 1925)

Marsden Park bandstand (Circa 1925)

The Park was created by Marsden Council in 1912, on land given to the village by four local millowners: John Edward Crowther, Samuel Firth, Arthur Robinson, and E J Bruce.

It contains a War Memorial to the 172 Marsden dead in the First World War, and a memorial to the Marsden dialect poet, Samuel Laycock, who died in 1894, according to the memorial, although his dates are generally reckoned to be 1826-1893.