Country: | England |
Official Name: | Sutton Waldron |
Static Image Name: | Sutton Waldron 2015.JPG |
Static Image Caption: | Sutton Waldron |
Coordinates: | 50.9425°N -2.1989°W |
Map Type: | Dorset |
Population: | 200 |
Civil Parish: | Sutton Waldron |
Shire District: | Dorset |
Shire County: | Dorset |
Region: | South West England |
Constituency Westminster: | North Dorset |
Post Town: | BLANDFORD FORUM |
Postcode Area: | DT |
Postcode District: | DT11 |
Dial Code: | 01747 |
Os Grid Reference: | ST862158 |
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, 80NaN0 north of Blandford Forum and 50NaN0 south of Shaftesbury. In the 2011 census the parish had 93 dwellings,[1] 87 households and a population of 200.[2]
The parish covers about 1300sigfig=2NaNsigfig=2 in a strip of land that, from west to east, is composed of Kimmeridge clay, Lower Greensand, Gault Clay, Upper Greensand and chalk.[3]
In 1086 in the Domesday Book, Sutton Waldron was recorded as Sudtone;[4] it had 24 households, one mill, six ploughlands, 61NaN1 of meadow and 40abbr=offNaNabbr=off of woodland. It was in the hundred of Gillingham and the lord and tenant-in-chief was Waleran the hunter.[5]
The parish church dates from 1847 and is constructed in the Decorated Gothic style.[6]