Morden, Dorset

Human settlement in England
  • Purbeck
Unitary authority
  • Dorset
Shire county
  • Dorset
Region
  • South West
CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townWAREHAMPostcode districtBH20PoliceDorsetFireDorset and WiltshireAmbulanceSouth Western UK Parliament
  • Mid Dorset and North Poole
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UK
England
Dorset
50°45′22″N 2°07′19″W / 50.756°N 2.122°W / 50.756; -2.122

Morden (otherwise Moreden[1]) is a civil parish in the Purbeck district of south Dorset, England. Morden is about 6 miles (10 km) north-west of Poole. At the 2011 census the civil parish had 141 households and a population of 323.[2]

As well as the village of Morden, the parish includes the hamlets of East Morden, West Morden and Whitefields.[1]

St Mary's Church, Morden, was rebuilt in 1873 except for the lower part of the 13th-century tower.[3] East Morden has a pub, the Cock & Bottle.[4]

In the north of the parish, Charborough was anciently a separate manor, hamlet and ecclesiastical parish.[5] The Grade I listed 17th-century mansion called Charborough House or Charborough Park stands in an extensive deer park,[6] and near the house is the small parish church, also dedicated to St Mary, rebuilt in 1775 and Grade II* listed.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "Morden Parish Records, Dorset". www.opcdorset.org. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  2. ^ "Area: Morden (Parish). Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  3. ^ Historic England. "Parish Church of Saint Mary, Including Boundary Wall (1120559)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  4. ^ "Cock and Bottle Inn". Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  5. ^ "Charborough". A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  6. ^ Historic England. "Charborough Park (1323286)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  7. ^ Historic England. "Parish Church of Saint Mary, Charborough (1120553)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 29 April 2022.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Morden, Dorset.
  • Morden Parish Council
  • 'Morden', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 2, South east (London, 1970), pp. 160-173. via British History Online
  • West Morden – Dorset Life, September 2009


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