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==