Crendell is a hamlet in the civil parish

Civil parish

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 of Alderholt

Alderholt

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 in the East Dorset

East Dorset

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 district of Dorset

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, England

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. The hamlet is close to the Dorset-Hampshire

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 border. Its nearest town is Verwood

Verwood

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, which lies approximately 2.5 miles (4 km) south from the hamlet.

Crendell has about ten houses. Clay was once mined here for the local pottery industry in Alderholt. Crendell also has a Methodist chapel, which remained on the Hampshire side of the border when the county borders were redrawn in 1974. The chapel, which was built in 1870, closed in 2011.