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Marsden, West Yorkshire

Marsden is a town in the county of West Yorkshire, England, west of Meltham, and on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal[?], close to the Standedge Tunnel[?].

The Marsden Moor Estate[?] is in the care of the National Trust.

Marsden was the birthplace of Henrietta Thompson, the mother of General James Wolfe who took Quebec from the French in 1759.

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