page_title: Moor Crichel
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Moor Crichel / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Map showing Moor Crichel in the 19th Century
context_page_description: Moor Crichel is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Crichel, in East Dorset, England situated on Cranborne Chase five miles east of Blandford Forum. The civil parish includes the hamlet of Manswood notable for a terrace of twelve thatched cottages. Dorset County Council's 2013 estimate of the parish population is 140. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 180. In the 2011 census the population of Moor Crichel parish combined with the neighbouring parish of Long Crichel was 246. The civil parish was abolished on 1 April 2015 and merged with Long Crichel to form Crichel.
context_section_description: At first, Moor Crichel was made up of two original settlements with different pieces of land attached to them. These two settlements were Little Crichel towards the north west of the parish where the village was close to Norwood Park; and Moor Crichel (More Crichel) in the south east of the parish which was close to the church of St. Mary until the latter part of the 18th Century. After this time, to make way for the extension of the park of Crichel House, the settlements were cleared and many of the inhabitants moved on to nearby Witchampton. Manswood to the west of the parish may be connected to the medieval settlement Chetterwood from 1215, although the earliest building there now is a farmhouse dated 1725.
  Moor Crichel is mentioned in the Domesday Book and is said to have had 38.3 households. The Lord in 1066 was King Edward but this changed in 1086 to King William who was also the tenant-in-chief for 1086.
caption: Map showing Moor Crichel in the 19th Century
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