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“MORDEN, a parish in the East Shaston division of the hundred of Loosebarrow, county Dorset, 5 miles N. of Wareham, and 7 N.E. of Poole Junction. Blandford is its post town. The village is of small extent and chiefly agricultural. The parish includes the hamlets of Charborough, Sandford, and Sherford. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Sarum, value £287. The church is an ancient edifice, with a square embattled tower crowned with pinnacles and containing four bells. The chancel contains a monument to the Erle family. The parochial charities produce about £255 per annum. There is a free school and a place of worship for the Wesleyans. Charborough Park, situated in a small dale and surrounded with wooded hills, is the seat of John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle Drax, Esq., M.P., who is lord of the manor and sole landowner."
"CHARBOROUGH, a hamlet in the parish of Morden, hundred of Loosebarrow, in the county of Dorset, 1 mile W. of East Morden, and 5 miles W. of Wimborne Minster. It was formerly a separate parish, but is now included in that of Morden. Charborough Park, the seat of the Drax family, is a fine old mansion, with a staircase painted by Thornhill. It was in this house that the plan of the Revolution of 1688 was discussed. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury, annexed to that of Morden. The church contains several monuments of the Drax family."
"SANDFORD, a hamlet in the parish of Morden, county Dorset, 5 miles N. of Wareham."
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from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
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| St. Mary, Morden, Church of England |
- Michael Day provides photographs and bibliography for Morden (St. Mary) on his Dorset Churches website
- A description of Morden from the Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5 is available on the UK Genealogy Archives site
The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"CHARBOROUGH, a hamlet in the parish of Morden, hundred of Loosebarrow, in the county of Dorset, 1 mile W. of East Morden, and 5 miles W. of Wimborne Minster. It was formerly a separate parish, but is now included in that of Morden. Charborough Park, the seat of the Drax family, is a fine old mansion, with a staircase painted by Thornhill. It was in this house that the plan of the Revolution of 1688 was discussed. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury, annexed to that of Morden. The church contains several monuments of the Drax family."
"SANDFORD, a hamlet in the parish of Morden, county Dorset, 5 miles N. of Wareham."
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