West Orchard

Human settlement in England

West Orchard

District

North Dorset

Dorset

Region

South West

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townSHAFTESBURYPostcode districtSP7Dialling code01747PoliceDorsetFire Dorset and Wiltshire Ambulance South Western UK Parliament

North Dorset

List of places: UK; England; Dorset

50°56′52″N 2°15′12″W / 50.9478°N 2.2532°W / 50.9478; -2.2532

West Orchard is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It is situated in the Blackmore Vale in the North Dorset administrative district, approximately halfway between the towns of Shaftesbury and Sturminster Newton. It is separated from the adjacent settlement of East Orchard by a stream. In 2013 the civil parish had an estimated population of 50.^[1] For local government purposes the parish is grouped with the parishes of East Orchard and Margaret Marsh, to form a Group Parish Council.^[2]

St Luke's Church was rebuilt in 1876–77 to the designs of Thomas Henry Wyatt, but the chancel is 15th-century.^[3]

References

^ "Parish Population Data". Dorset County Council. 20 January 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
^ The Orchards and Margaret Marsh Group Parish Council, dorsetforyou.com
^ Historic England (16 August 1960). "CHURCH OF UNKNOWN DEDICATION, West Orchard (1110395)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 January 2021.