Static Image: | Lower Wraxall Church - geograph.org.uk - 160876.jpg |
Static Image Width: | 237px |
Static Image Caption: | Church of St Mary, Lower Wraxall |
Country: | England |
Coordinates: | 50.8056°N -2.6059°W |
Map Type: | Dorset |
Official Name: | Wraxall |
Population: | 40 |
Population Ref: | [1] |
Unitary England: | Dorset |
Shire County: | Dorset |
Post Town: | Dorchester |
Postcode Area: | DT |
Postcode District: | DT2 |
Constituency Westminster: | West Dorset |
Region: | South West England |
Os Grid Reference: | ST572012 |
Wraxall is a civil parish in the English county of Dorset, consisting of the two hamlets Higher Wraxall and Lower Wraxall. It is situated in a valley in the chalk hills of the Dorset Downs, about 11miles north-west of the county town Dorchester. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the parish population is 40.[1]
The origin of the name Wraxall, shared with several other villages in Somerset, Wiltshire and Dorset, is thought to be "a nook of land frequented by buzzards".[2]
St Mary's Church is the most noticeable building in the parish.