Morden, Dorset
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox UK place Morden (otherwise Moreden<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>) is a civil parish in south Dorset, England. Morden is about Template:Convert north-west of Poole. At the 2011 census the civil parish had 141 households and a population of 323.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
As well as the village of Morden, the parish includes the hamlets of East Morden, West Morden and Whitefields.<ref name=":0" />
St Mary's Church, Morden, was rebuilt in 1873 except for the lower part of the 13th-century tower.<ref>Template:National Heritage List for England</ref> East Morden has a pub, the Cock & Bottle.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In the north of the parish, Charborough was anciently a separate manor, hamlet and ecclesiastical parish.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Grade I listed 17th-century mansion called Charborough House or Charborough Park stands in an extensive deer park,<ref>Template:National Heritage List for England</ref> and near the house is the small parish church, also dedicated to St Mary, rebuilt in 1775 and Grade II* listed.<ref>Template:National Heritage List for England</ref>
References
External links
- 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