Towns & cities · South East England
Okeford Fitzpaine
Okeford Fitzpaine — village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 3 h–6 h
- Free entry
- Family-friendly
- Dog-friendly
About
Okeford Fitzpaine is a town, city, village or settlement in the United Kingdom. Recent population estimates put it at around 580 people. Wikidata describes it as: "village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK". Coordinates: 50.8971°, -2.2756°.
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Protected designations
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Dorset
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Okeford Fitzpaine is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, situated in the Blackmore Vale three miles (five kilometres) south of the town of Sturminster Newton. It is sited on a thin strip of greensand under the scarp face of the Dorset Downs. The parish includes the village of Belchalwell to the west and most of the hamlet of Fiddleford to the north, and at the 2021 census had a population of 1,000 people in 447 households.
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Background
History
Prehistoric remains within the parish include three cross dykes and five round barrows on the chalk hills south of the village, and an Iron Age hillfort on Banbury Hill, towards Sturminster Newton. Banbury covers about 3 acre and is of univallate (single rampart) construction, though its defences have been reduced by cultivation. In 1086 in the Domesday Book Okeford Fitzpaine was recorded as Adford; it had 40 households, 16 ploughlands, 21 acre of meadow and one mill. It was in Sturminster Newton Hundred and the tenant-in-chief was Glastonbury Abbey. Since then it has been known as "Aukford Alured" and "Ockford Phippin", the latter echoing the modern colloquial "Fippenny Ockford" and its…
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- Coordinates
- 50.8971, -2.2756
- District
- Dorset
- Parish
- Okeford Fitzpaine
- Postcode
- DT11 0RE
- Parliamentary constituency
- North Dorset
- Population
- 580
Sources
- wikidata: Q582068 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Okeford Fitzpaine (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: 050623 056 uk dor of.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Okeford Fitzpaine?
- Okeford Fitzpaine is in South-East England, United Kingdom (postcode DT11 0RE), in the parish of Okeford Fitzpaine.
- Is Okeford Fitzpaine a protected site?
- Yes — Okeford Fitzpaine is part of the Dorset National Landscape (AONB) and the Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs National Landscape (AONB).
- Is Okeford Fitzpaine free to visit?
- Yes, Okeford Fitzpaine is free to enter.
- How do I get to Okeford Fitzpaine?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode DT11 0RE. It sits within the North Dorset parliamentary constituency.