Place:Okeford Fitzpane, Dorset, England

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NameOkeford Fitzpane
Alt namesAdfordsource: Domesday Book (1985) p 95
Okeford Fitzpainesource: Wikipedia
Okeford-Fitzpainesource: Family History Library Catalog
Fiddlefordsource: hamlet in parish
TypeAncient parish, Civil parish
Coordinates50.898°N 2.277°W
Located inDorset, England
See alsoCranborne Hundred, Dorset, Englandhundred in which it was located
Sturminster Newton Hundred, Dorset, Englandhundred in which it was also located
Sturminster Rural, Dorset, Englandrural district 1894-1974
North Dorset District, Dorset, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area 1974-2019
the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

Okeford Fitzpane is a civil parish and a village in Dorset, England, situated in the Blackmore Vale 3 miles (5 kilometres) south of the town of Sturminster Newton in the North Dorset District (1974-2019).

The civil parish is sited on a thin strip of greensand under the scarp face of the Dorset Downs. In the UK census of 2011, the civil parish—which includes the hamlet of Belchalwell to the west and most of Fiddleford to the north—had 404 dwellings, 380 households and a population of 913.

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Fiddleford

Fiddleford is a small hamlet situated in the north of the parish of Okeford Fitzpane. It was founded by an English nobleman named Fitela (Fitela's Ford), and the aforementioned ford is over the River Stour.

Fiddleford is home to around 25 houses, a public house and a large successful mushroom farm. In the hamlet there is also the beautiful mill and weir and the Fiddleford Manor, one of the oldest buildings in Dorset, probably dating from around 1370 and built by William Latimer, Royal Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset.

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