Description
Sandford Orcas, a parish in the county of Somerset, 2 miles SE of Marston on the G.W.R., and 3 NNW of Sherborne. It has a post and money order office under Sherborne; telegraph office, Rimpton. Acreage, 1104; population, 223. The manor house is a Tudor structure, and was formerly the seat of the Orskoys and the Knoyles. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; gross value, £290 with residence. The church is Norman and good, and has been well restored.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
