Moggerhanger, Bedfordshire

Description
Moggerhanger, Muggerhanger, or Morhanger, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Beds. The village stands 1 mile SSW of Blunham station on the L. & N.W.R., 1 1/2 W of the river Ivel, and 4 1/2 miles NW by N of Biggleswade, and has a post office under Sandy; money order and telegraph office, Blunham. The ecclesiastical parish contains also the hamlet of Charlton, and was constituted in 1860. Acreage of the township, 1815 ; population, 430; of the ecclesiastical parish, 392. Morhanger Park is a fine mansion in the Classic style, beautifully situated in the middle of a well-wooded park. St John's is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, £81 with residence. The church was built in 1861 by Mrs Dawkins as a memorial to her deceased husband; is a beautiful building in the Early Norman style, of Kempston stone and Silsoe red sandstone, with pillars of Ancaster stone; consists of nave, aisles, transepts, and apsidal chancel, with a central tower; and contains a splendid brass monument to the Rev E. H. Dawkins, over his remains.