Editing Morden (section)

=== The Garth family ===
[[File:Morden Hall - geograph.org.uk - 1298676.jpg|thumb|Morden Hall, home of the Garth family]]
The manor and village remained abbey property until the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]] in [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]]'s reign when the manor was sold to Lionel Ducket and Edward Whitchurch. Together, they sold it on the following year to Sir Richard Garth who became [[Lord of the Manor]].<ref name=BHO_1>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=43056&strquery=morden 'Parishes: Morden', A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 4 (1912), pp. 235–37.]</ref> The Garth family owned the land and maintained their connection with the parish for the next four centuries, living at [[Morden Hall Park]] until the manor was sold by another Sir [[Richard Garth]] in 1872.<ref name=BHO_1/>

The prominence of the Garth family is recorded locally in the name of Garth Road, [[Lower Morden]] and the former Garth School. The two lions included in the present civic [[heraldry|arms]] of the [[London Borough of Merton]] are adopted from the arms of Sir Richard.