Editing Morda (section)

===Morda House===

The village was home to Morda House, otherwise known as the House of Industry or Oswestry Workhouse, originally opened in 1792 as the communal [[workhouse]] for Oswestry, [[Chirk]] and [[Llansilin]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Oswestry/|title=The Workhouse in Oswestry, Shropshire (Salop)|last=Higginbotham|first=Peter|website=www.workhouses.org.uk|access-date=2017-11-28}}</ref> After the [[Poor Law Amendment Act 1834]] the workhouse's scope was extended to take in people from many more of the surrounding parishes.

The main workhouse was a substantial three-storey building that could accommodate up to 300 inmates. In 1891, a 16-bed isolation hospital was erected to the south-east of the workhouse. This later became the Oswestry and [[Chirk]] Isolation Hospital, and then Greenfields Hospital.<ref name=":0" /> Since the 1980s the former hospital has housed Morda & Sweeney Social Club.

The main workhouse building was destroyed by fire in 1982. The only surviving part of it was a two-storey section that was later incorporated into a private residence.<ref name=":0" />