Belchalwell is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Okeford Fitzpaine in the Blackmore Vale, in the Dorset district, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. It lies 2+1⁄2 miles (4 kilometres) south of Sturminster Newton and 6 miles (10 kilometres) northwest of Blandford Forum. Belchalwell Street is sited on Upper Greensand,[1] with Lower Belchalwell on the boundary of Gault and Kimmeridge Clay,[2] both beneath the north slopes of Bell Hill, part of the Dorset Downs. In 1881 the parish had a population of 169.[3] On 25 March 1885 the parish was abolished and merged with Okeford Fitzpaine and Fifehead Neville.[4]
Belchalwell is Saxon in origin, with a medieval church, St Aldhelm's Church, much renovated. The name of the village describes a cold well on a hillside.[5] The village has approximately 30 properties with fewer than a hundred residents, and is much reduced in size from former times, largely due to reductions in agricultural employment, which has always been the primary industry. One former resident was the TV personality Jack Hargreaves.
^Ralph Wightman (1983). Portrait of Dorset (4 ed.). Robert Hale Ltd. p. 16. ISBN 0-7090-0844-9.
^Geological Survey of England and Wales
^"Population statistics Belchalwell CP/AP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
^"Sturminster Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
^Roland Gant (1980). Dorset Villages. Robert Hale Ltd. p. 81. ISBN 0-7091-8135-3.
Belchalwell is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Okeford Fitzpaine in the Blackmore Vale, in the Dorset district, in the ceremonial...
include a village hall, which is also used by the neighbouring villages of Belchalwell and Woolland, and a cricket ground. "'Ibberton', in An Inventory of the...
were made in Hargreaves's real shed at his last home – Raven Cottage, Belchalwell, Dorset. Using original cut film inserts he had bought from Southern...
Downs. In the 2011 census the civil parish—which includes the village of Belchalwell to the west and most of the hamlet of Fiddleford to the north—had 404...
Vale Magazine is named for the area. Settlements in the vale include: Belchalwell Bourton Child Okeford East Stour Gillingham Hazelbury Bryan Henstridge...
North Dorset district of Dorset, England Anderson Ansty Ashmore Bagber Belchalwell Blandford Forum Bourton Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall...
2015. Towns with a population over 2,500 are in bold. Anderson, Ashmore Belchalwell, Blandford Forum, Bourton, Bryanston, Buckhorn Weston Cann, Charlton...
St Peter Redlynch: St Mary Hazelbury Bryan and the Hillside Parishes Belchalwell: St Aldhelm Fifehead Neville: All Saints Hazelbury Bryan: St Mary & St...
North Dorset district of Dorset, England Anderson Ansty Ashmore Bagber Belchalwell Blandford Forum Bourton Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall...
county of Dorset, England, containing the following parishes: Ashmore Belchalwell (divided between Okeford Fitzpaine and Fifehead Neville 1884) Cranborne...
North Dorset district of Dorset, England Anderson Ansty Ashmore Bagber Belchalwell Blandford Forum Bourton Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall...
North Dorset district of Dorset, England Anderson Ansty Ashmore Bagber Belchalwell Blandford Forum Bourton Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall...
North Dorset district of Dorset, England Anderson Ansty Ashmore Bagber Belchalwell Blandford Forum Bourton Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall...
North Dorset district of Dorset, England Anderson Ansty Ashmore Bagber Belchalwell Blandford Forum Bourton Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall...
North Dorset district of Dorset, England Anderson Ansty Ashmore Bagber Belchalwell Blandford Forum Bourton Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall...
North Dorset district of Dorset, England Anderson Ansty Ashmore Bagber Belchalwell Blandford Forum Bourton Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall...
North Dorset district of Dorset, England Anderson Ansty Ashmore Bagber Belchalwell Blandford Forum Bourton Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall...
North Dorset district of Dorset, England Anderson Ansty Ashmore Bagber Belchalwell Blandford Forum Bourton Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall...
North Dorset district of Dorset, England Anderson Ansty Ashmore Bagber Belchalwell Blandford Forum Bourton Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall...
North Dorset district of Dorset, England Anderson Ansty Ashmore Bagber Belchalwell Blandford Forum Bourton Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall...
North Dorset district of Dorset, England Anderson Ansty Ashmore Bagber Belchalwell Blandford Forum Bourton Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall...
North Dorset district of Dorset, England Anderson Ansty Ashmore Bagber Belchalwell Blandford Forum Bourton Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall...
North Dorset district of Dorset, England Anderson Ansty Ashmore Bagber Belchalwell Blandford Forum Bourton Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall...
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