Coordinates: 50°52′37″N 2°00′40″W / 50.877°N 2.011°W / 50.877; -2.011
Moor Crichel is a village and civil parish 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.
The parish church of St. Mary is in the grounds of Crichel House and not accessible to the public.
In 1870-72