The civil parish includes the hamlet of Manswood notable for a terrace of twelve thatched cottages.

[5][6]: 295 Near to Moor Crichel is Chetterwood, the first element of which is also Brittonic, in this case the word that survives in modern Welsh as coed ("wood").

[7]: 294 At first, Moor Crichel was made up of two original settlements with different pieces of land attached to them.

After this time, to make way for the extension of the park of Crichel House, the settlements were cleared and many of the inhabitants moved on to nearby Witchampton.

Manswood to the west of the parish may be connected to the medieval settlement Chetterwood from 1215, although the earliest building there now is a farmhouse dated 1725.

[10] In the 16th Century, Crichel House was owned by the Uvedales and then ownership changed to the Sturts.

To make way for new parkland, the village was moved south; due to this the original site of Moor Crichel is now beneath the lake.

[13] The parish church of St. Mary is in the grounds of Crichel House and not accessible to the public.

After this brief period of decreasing population, the area experienced a fairly rapid increase to 374 in 1851.

[15] In more recent years, the population of Moor Crichel experienced a small rise in 2001 to 262.

[22] The largest ethnic group in Moor Crichel with 96.7% of the population is White British as reported by the 2011 Census.