MORDEN, a parish in the hundred of LOOSEBARROW,
Shaston (East) division of the county of DORSET,
6 miles (N.) from Wareham, containing 650 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Dorset,
and diocese of Bristdl, rated in the king's books at
£ 8.4.7., and in the patronage of Richard Erie Drax, Esq.
The church is an ancient building, with an embattled
tower crowned with pinnacles. Among other sepulchral
memorials of the Erie family, there are in the
chancel an altar-tomb, and a monument of freestone,
having the figure of a man in complete armour, in the
attitude of prayer, with three children behind him.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.