Sutton Waldron is a village and
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of Parish (administrative division), administrative parish used for Local government in England, local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below district ...
in north
Dorset
Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset. Covering an area of ...
, England, situated on the
A350 road between
Iwerne Minster
Iwerne Minster ( ) is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England. It lies on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, approximately midway between the towns of Shaftesbury and Blandford Forum. The A350 main road between those towns passes through the ...
and
Fontmell Magna, in the
Blackmore Vale under the
scarp
Scarp may refer to:
Landforms and geology
* Cliff, a significant vertical, or near vertical, rock exposure
* Escarpment, a steep slope or long rock that occurs from erosion or faulting and separates two relatively level areas of differing elevatio ...
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
The Gault Formation is a geological formation of stiff blue clay deposited in a calm, fairly deep-water marine environment during the Lower Cretaceous Period (Upper and Middle Albian). It is well exposed in the coastal cliffs at Copt Point in Fol ...
, Upper Greensand and
chalk
Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock. It is a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite and originally formed deep under the sea by the compression of microscopic plankton that had settled to the sea floor. Cha ...
.
In 1086 in the
Domesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...
, 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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Civil parishes in Dorset
Villages in Dorset
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