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Village and civil parish in Dorset, England

Sutton Waldron

Sutton Waldron

Key facts

population225
instance ofvillage, civil parish
countryUnited Kingdom
located in the administrative territorial entityDorset
All data from the card 15
Population
200
OS grid reference
ST862158
Civil parish
Sutton Waldron
Unitary authority
Dorset
Ceremonial county
Dorset
Region
South West
Country
England
Sovereign state
United Kingdom
Post town
BLANDFORD FORUM
Postcode district
DT11
Dialling code
01747
Police
Dorset
Fire
Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance
South Western
UK Parliament
North Dorset

Sutton Waldron is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, situated on the A350 road between Iwerne Minster and Fontmell Magna, in the Blackmore Vale under the scarp of Cranborne Chase, 8 miles (13 kilometres) north of Blandford Forum and 5 miles (8 kilometres) south of Shaftesbury. In the 2011 census the parish had 93 dwellings, 87 households and a population of 200.

The parish covers about 1,300 acres (530 hectares) in a strip of land that, from west to east, is composed of Kimmeridge clay, Lower Greensand, Gault Clay, Upper Greensand and chalk.

In 1086 in the Domesday Book, Sutton Waldron was recorded as Sudtone; it had 24 households, one mill, six ploughlands, 6 acres (2.4 hectares) of meadow and 40 acres (16 hectares) of woodland. It was in the hundred of Gillingham and the lord and tenant-in-chief was Waleran the hunter.

The parish church dates from 1847 and is constructed in the Decorated Gothic style.

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