Morpeth, Ontario
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| official_name | Morpeth |
| native_name | |
| settlement_type | Unincorporated community |
| image_skyline | File:Morpeth United Church - 2024 - 1.jpg |
| image_caption | Morpeth United Church, built 1877 |
| pushpin_map | CAN ON Chatham-Kent#Canada Southern Ontario |
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| subdivision_type | Country |
| subdivision_name | Canada |
| subdivision_type1 | Province |
| subdivision_name1 | Ontario |
| subdivision_type2 | Municipality |
| subdivision_name2 | Chatham-Kent |
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| established_title | |
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| timezone | EST |
| utc_offset | -5 |
| timezone_DST | EDT |
| utc_offset_DST | -4 |
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| elevation_footnotes | |
| postal_code_type | Forward sortation area |
| postal_code | N0P 1X0 |
| area_codes | 519 and 226 |
| blank_name | NTS Map |
| blank_info | 040I05 |
| blank1_name | GNBC Code |
| blank1_info | FDWRD |
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Morpeth is a community in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada. It is located between Blenheim and St. Thomas on Highway 3.
History
The community is named after Lord Morpeth, who was once a guest of Col. Thomas Talbot. Morpeth was an area of notable commerce in the 1880s. When the railroad went through, it instead went through nearby Ridgetown, Ontario, which eventually grew faster than Morpeth.
Archibald Lampman, one of Canada's Confederation Poets, and "generally considered the finest of Canada's late 19th-century poets in English", was born in Morpeth in 1861. The Dictionary of Canadian Biography says: "The Morpeth that Lampman knew was a small town set in the rolling farm country of what is now western Ontario, not far from the shores of Lake Erie. The little red church just east of the town, on the Talbot Road, was his father’s charge."
St. John's Anglican Church was completed in 1878, by architect Gordon W. Lloyd. In 2010, it was added to the Municipal Heritage Register due to its "cultural value or interest" to Chatham-Kent; its heritage status was removed in 2021.
Attractions
Attractions include Greenview Park and Zoo, Rondeau Shores Trailer Park, and Rondeau Provincial Park.
Morpeth United Church, built in 1877, was converted into an Airbnb rental unit.
References
References
- "Morpeth," ''Encyclopedia of Canada'' (Toronto: University Associates, 1948), IV, 338
- Lauriston, Victor. (1952). "Romantic Kent: More Than Three Centuries of History, 1626-1952". Shepherd Printing Co..
- Michael Gnarowski, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20090910031235/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004492 Lampman, Archibald]," ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' (Hurtig, 1988), 1169.
- "[http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=6209&interval=20&&PHPSESSID=h31jipmd5m1esaab5kfpk286q5 Lampman, Archibald]," Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Web, Mar. 22, 2011.
- Quattrociocchi, Loryssa. "The Ecclesiological Gothic Revival in Southwestern Ontario: Three Churches By Gordon W. Lloyd (1832-1905)". University of Guelph.
- Bouchard, Bird. (November 17, 2021). "Morpeth native hopeful historic church does not get demolished". [[Toronto Star]].
- Barker, Jacob. (November 10, 2021). "Heritage advocates questioning Chatham-Kent decision to strip Morpeth church of heritage designation". [[CBC News]].
- "Greenview Park and Zoo". Greenview Park and Zoo.
- "Rondeau Shores Trailer Park". Rondeau Shores Trailer Park.
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