Place:Sutton Waldron, Dorset, England

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NameSutton Waldron
Alt namesSudtunesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 96
Sutton-Waldronsource: Family History Library Catalog
TypeAncient parish, Civil parish
Coordinates50.933°N 2.183°W
Located inDorset, England
See alsoRedland Hundred, Dorset, Englandhundred in which it was located
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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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, north of Blandford Forum and south of Shaftesbury. In the 2011 census the parish had 93 dwellings, 87 households and a population of 200.

The parish covers about 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, of meadow and 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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