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]

Morden
St Mary's Church, Morden
Morden Location within Dorset
Population	323 (in 2011)
OS grid reference	SY915952
District	Purbeck
Unitary authority	Dorset
Shire county	Dorset
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	WAREHAM
Postcode district	BH20
Police	Dorset
Fire	Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	Mid Dorset and North Poole
List of places UK England Dorset 50.756°N 2.122°W / 50.756; -2.122

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]

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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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