Marsden is a large village in the Colne Valley, in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England.

The village is 7 miles (11 km) west of Huddersfield at the confluence of the River Colne and Wessenden Brook.

The Crowthers moved to Marsden in 1876, beginning a long and profitable association with cloth manufacturing in the town.

[4] The Church of St Bartholomew was completed in 1899, although the nave and aisle had been in use from 1895, when the previous chapel was demolished.

[8] Marsden is the last significant settlement on the West Yorkshire side of the Standedge Pennine crossing into Greater Manchester.

[9] Butterley Reservoir with its distinctive spillway is near Marsden inside the Peak District National Park.

The A62 road between Huddersfield and Oldham passes through the village and the Standedge cutting some 2.5 miles (4 km) to the west.

Services are operated by TransPennine Express to locations including Huddersfield, Manchester Piccadilly, Leeds and Hull.

return) allowed school children from Huddersfield access to the moors around Marsden during summer holidays.

The Holme Valley Mountain Rescue Team has its headquarters at Marsden Fire Station from where the volunteer team provides rescue cover for surrounding moorland areas and assists West Yorkshire Police with searches for missing people.

These productions have used the village: Marsden was the birthplace of Henrietta Thompson, the mother of General James Wolfe who consolidated British power in North America by taking Quebec from the French in 1759.