Editing Morden (section)

=== 19th century ===
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|+'''Morden's Population in the 19th Century'''<ref name = census>UK Census records</ref>
|- style="text-align:center"
! colspan="2" style="width:50%;"|19th century|| colspan="2" style="width:50%;"|20th century
|- 
|1801||style="text-align:right;"|512||1901||style="text-align:right;"|960
|-   
|1811||style="text-align:right;"|549||1911||style="text-align:right;"|1,202 
|- 
|1821||style="text-align:right;"|638||1921||style="text-align:right;"|1,355 
|- 
|1831||style="text-align:right;"|655||1931||style="text-align:right;"|12,618
|-  
|1841||style="text-align:right;"|685||1941{{efn-lr|name=fn1}}||style="text-align:right;"|war
|-  
|1851||style="text-align:right;"|628||1951||style="text-align:right;"|35,417
|-
|1861||style="text-align:right;"|654||1961{{efn-lr|name=fn2}}||style="text-align:right;"|68,011
|-
|1871||style="text-align:right;"|787||1971{{efn-lr|name=fn2}}||style="text-align:right;"|62,872
|- 
|1881||style="text-align:right;"|694||1981{{efn-lr|name=fn2}}||style="text-align:right;"|61,108
|- 
|1891||style="text-align:right;"|763||1991{{efn-lr|name=fn3}}||style="text-align:right;"|n/a
|-
|}
{{notelist-lr|refs=
{{efn-lr|name=fn1|no census was held due to war}}
{{efn-lr|name=fn2|includes Merton}}
{{efn-lr|name=fn3|census data no longer relates to parish boundaries}}
}}
Despite the rapid suburban development of nearby [[Wimbledon, London|Wimbledon]] occasioned by the arrival of the new railways constructed in the mid 19th century, Morden remained a rural parish throughout the 19th century. While the population of [[Wimbledon, London|Wimbledon]] grew hugely from 1,591 in 1801 to 41,652 in 1901, the population of Morden was 512 in 1801 and, one hundred years later, had grown to just 960.<ref name = census>UK Census records</ref>

In 1871, the area of the parish of Morden was {{convert|1474.926|acre|ha|3}}<ref name = os_1871>[[Ordnance Survey]] map, 1871 edition</ref> with the small village clustered around [[St Lawrence Church, Morden|St Lawrence's church]] at the top of the hill on the road from London to [[Epsom]] (now London Road/Epsom Road). Approximately {{convert|1/2|mi}} to the west of the main village and the grounds of [[Morden Park]] stood the hamlet of [[Lower Morden]].

Close to the church were the George Inn, a 17th-century [[coaching inn]] (now modernised and part of a national pub restaurant chain), the estate of [[Morden Park]] and a school.

The other main public house in the village was the Crown Inn, located to the north east of the village with a small cluster of cottages on Crown Road. The rest of what is now the commercial centre of Morden was fields.

In the late 19th century the principal industry remained agriculture, although some industrial activity did exist along the [[River Wandle]] where [[watermill]]s ground tobacco to [[Snuff (tobacco)|snuff]] and a varnish works existed close to the site of Poplar Primary School. By 1898, the varnish works had gone and there was a [[brickworks]]<ref name = os_1898>Ordnance Survey map, 1898 edition</ref> on the site of Mostyn Gardens in Martin Way (then called Green Lane).<ref name = os_1898/>