Okeford Fitzpaine

Okeford Fitzpaine

Coordinates: 50°53′50″N 2°16′32″W / 50.8971°N 2.2756°W / 50.8971; -2.2756

Okeford Fitzpaine
Okeford Fitzpaine is located in Dorset
Okeford Fitzpaine

 Okeford Fitzpaine shown within Dorset
Population 979 
OS grid reference ST806110
District North Dorset
Shire county Dorset
Region South West
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Police Dorset
Fire Dorset
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
List of places: UK • England • Dorset

Coordinates: 50°53′50″N 2°16′32″W / 50.8971°N 2.2756°W / 50.8971; -2.2756 Okeford Fitzpaine is a village in the county of Dorset in southwest England. It is situated in the North Dorset administrative district of the county, three miles south of the town of Sturminster Newton. It lies in the Blackmore Vale under the scarp face of the Dorset Downs. As of 2001 the population of the civil parish of the village, including the hamlets of Belchalwell to the west and Fiddleford to the north, was 979.[1]

Within the parish are about 55 Listed houses[2], a green Listed telephone box, and also a tiny museum exhibiting the village's own early nineteenth century fire-engine and the World War II air-raid siren issued to the village post office.

Looking towards the parish church


Famous residents

Well known people who live, or lived, in Okeford Fitzpaine and its environs include:

References

  1. ^ Parish & Ward Population Estimates for Dorset 1992-2004
  2. ^ Search on Okeford Fitzpaine

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