MARDEN PARK, the seat of Sir W. R. Clayton, Bart., in Godstone parish, Surrey; in a valley near Godstone village. A pillar in the garden was erected by Sir Robert Clayton, the first baronet, in memory of Thomas Firmin the philanthropist, who died in 1697; and a flagstaff tower, called the Castle, on an eminence within the grounds, commands a very fine and extensive view. A "bourn, ''or temporary rivulet, bursts out in times of rain at an edge of the grounds; runs to the Wandle at Croydon; and was formerly regarded, at an outburst, as prognosticating some great public disaster.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))