Country: | England |
Static Image Name: | St Andrew's Church, Todber - geograph.org.uk - 361897.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Parish church of St Andrew, Todber |
Coordinates: | 50.979°N -2.287°W |
Map Type: | Dorset |
Official Name: | Todber |
Population: | 140 |
Unitary England: | Dorset |
Shire County: | Dorset |
Post Town: | Sturminster Newton |
Postcode Area: | DT |
Postcode District: | DT10 |
Constituency Westminster: | North Dorset |
Region: | South West England |
Os Grid Reference: | ST800200 |
Todber is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It lies in the Blackmore Vale, about 5miles southwest of Shaftesbury. The underlying geology is Corallian limestone.[1] In the 2011 census the parish had 55 households and a population of 140.[2]
In 1086 Todber was recorded in the Domesday Book as Todeberie;[3] it was in the hundred of Gillingham, the lord was Geoffrey Mallory and the tenant-in-chief was William of Mohun. It had one mill, 121NaN1 of meadow and 2 ploughlands.[4]
Todber parish church was rebuilt in the Early English and Perpendicular styles in 1879, though the tower is of earlier construction.[5]
Todber is one of four parishes — the others being East Stour, Stour Provost and West Stour — under the governance of The Stours Parish Council.[6]