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
TypeVillage
Coordinates50.898107°N 2.277088°W
Located inDorset, England
Contained Places
Hamlet
Fiddleford
Inhabited place
Belchalwell


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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. the population of the civil parish of the village, including the hamlets of Belchalwell to the west and Fiddleford to the north, was 979.

Within the parish are about 55 Listed houses, 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.



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source: Family History Library Catalog
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