Description
Orchard, West, a parish in Dorsetshire, on an affluent of the river Stour, 3 miles NE of Sturminster Newton station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint railway, and 5 1/2 SSW of Shaftesbury. Post town, Shaftesbury. The parish comprises 669 acres. Population, 115. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the rectory of Fontmell Magna, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church is a small Gothic structure, rebuilt in 1878.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
