List of civil parishes in Dorset

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This is a list of civil parishes in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. There are 269 civil parishes.

The former Bournemouth County Borough was mostly unparished and the former Borough of Poole was entirely unparished. However, town and parish councils for Bournemouth[1], Poole[2] and Broadstone[3] are in process of formation with the first elections due to take place in May 2026.

Civil parish Population 2011 Area (km2) 2011 Pre 1974 district Former district
Burton and Winkton 4,177[4] 8.68 Ringwood and Fordingbridge Rural District[5] Christchurch
Christchurch 31,372 Christchurch
Throop and Holdenhurst[6] 308 Bournemouth County Borough Bournemouth
Highcliffe and Walkford[7] 10,007 Christchurch
Hurn 501[8] 22.35 Ringwood and Fordingbridge Rural District[5] Christchurch

Dorset

Population figures are unavailable for some of the smallest parishes.

Civil parish Population 2011 Area (km2) 2011 Pre 1974 district Former district
Abbotsbury 481[9] 18.19 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle [11] 436[12] 22.79 Wareham and Purbeck Rural District[13] Purbeck
Alderholt 3,171[14] 15.22 Wimborne and Cranborne Rural District[15] East Dorset
Alton Pancras 175[16] 9.21 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Anderson Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Arne 1,297[18] 24.88 Wareham and Purbeck Rural District[13] Purbeck
Ashmore 188[19] 9.60 Shaftesbury Rural District[20] North Dorset
Askerswell 154[21] 6.99 Bridport Rural District[22] West Dorset
Athelhampton and Puddletown[23] Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Batcombe Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Beaminster (town) 3,136[25] 24.29 Beaminster Rural District[26] West Dorset
Beer Hackett Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Bere Regis 1,745[27] 33.20 Wareham and Purbeck Rural District[13] Purbeck
Bettiscombe Beaminster Rural District[26] West Dorset
Bincombe 514[28] 7.87 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Bishop's Caundle 398[29] 3.87 Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Blandford Forum (town) 10,325[30] 8.47 Blandford Forum Municipal Borough[31] North Dorset
Blandford St Mary 1,511[32] 9.71 Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Bloxworth 200[33] 10.86 Wareham and Purbeck Rural District[13] Purbeck
Bourton 822[34] 3.72 Shaftesbury Rural District[20] North Dorset
Bradford Abbas 975[35] 9.49 Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Bradford Peverell 370[36] 10.75 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Bridport (town) 8,332[37] 3.19 Bridport Municipal Borough[38] West Dorset
Broadmayne 1,204[39] 6.45 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Broadwindsor 1,378[40] 30.52 Beaminster Rural District[26] West Dorset
Bryanston 925[41] 7.15 Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Buckhorn Weston 356[42] 6.85 Shaftesbury Rural District[20] North Dorset
Buckland Newton 622[43] 17.00 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Burleston and Tolpuddle[23] Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Burstock 120[44] 3.76 Beaminster Rural District[26] West Dorset
Burton Bradstock 948[45] 10.97 Bridport Rural District[22] West Dorset
Cann 822[46] 9.30 Shaftesbury Rural District[20] North Dorset
Castleton 155[47] 20.94 Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Catherston Leweston Bridport Rural District[22] West Dorset
Cattistock 509[48] 15.04 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Caundle Marsh Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Cerne Abbas 784[49] 17.28 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Chalbury 143[50] 3.32 Wimborne and Cranborne Rural District[15] East Dorset
Chaldon Herring 140[51] 12.53 Wareham and Purbeck Rural District[13] Purbeck
Charlton Marshall 1,156[52] 9.29 Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Charminster 2,940[53] 17.71 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Charmouth 1,352[54] 2.78 Bridport Rural District[22] West Dorset
Chedington Beaminster Rural District[26] West Dorset
Cheselbourne 296[55] 12.48 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Chetnole 344[56] 5.78 Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Chettle Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Chickerell (town) 5,515[57] 13.96 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Chideock 686[58] 11.98 Bridport Rural District[22] West Dorset
Chilcombe Bridport Rural District[22] West Dorset
Child Okeford 1,114[59] 6.36 Sturminster Rural District[60] North Dorset
Chilfrome Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Church Knowle 261[61] 11.80 Wareham and Purbeck Rural District[13] Purbeck
Clifton Maybank Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Colehill 6,907[62] 9.69 Wimborne and Cranborne Rural District[15] East Dorset
Compton Abbas 216[63] 6.04 Shaftesbury Rural District[20] North Dorset
Compton Valence Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Coombe Keynes Wareham and Purbeck Rural District[13] Purbeck
Corfe Castle 1,355[64] 37.26 Wareham and Purbeck Rural District[13] Purbeck
Corfe Mullen 10,133[65] 12.27 Wimborne and Cranborne Rural District[15] East Dorset
Corscombe 445[66] 20.26 Beaminster Rural District[26] West Dorset
Cranborne 779[67] 17.88 Wimborne and Cranborne Rural District[15] East Dorset
Crichel [68] 246[69] 16.21 Wimborne and Cranborne Rural District[15] East Dorset
Crossways 2,267[70] 6.70 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Dewlish 284[71] 8.61 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Dorchester (town) 19,060[72] 7.12 Dorchester Municipal Borough[73] West Dorset
Durweston 398[74] 7.48 Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
East Chelborough Beaminster Rural District[26] West Dorset
East Holme Wareham and Purbeck Rural District[13] Purbeck
East Lulworth 246[75] 17.48 Wareham and Purbeck Rural District[13] Purbeck
East Orchard 223[76] 8.32 Shaftesbury Rural District[20] North Dorset
East Stoke 504[77] 23.04 Wareham and Purbeck Rural District[13] Purbeck
East Stour 573[78] 7.22 Shaftesbury Rural District[20] North Dorset
Edmondsham 188[79] 7.28 Wimborne and Cranborne Rural District[15] East Dorset
Evershot 334[80] 12.64 Beaminster Rural District[26] West Dorset
Farnham 183[81] 5.75 Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Ferndown Town (town) 17,839[82] 20.36 Wimborne and Cranborne Rural District[15] East Dorset
Fifehead Magdalen Sturminster Rural District[60] North Dorset
Fifehead Neville 147[83] 5.48 Sturminster Rural District[60] North Dorset
Fleet Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Folke 339[84] 11.27 Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Fontmell Magna 734[85] 11.72 Shaftesbury Rural District[20] North Dorset
Frampton 524[86] 13.32 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Frome St Quintin 171[87] 5.46 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Frome Vauchurch 149[88] 1.97 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Gillingham (town) 11,756[89] 31.29 Shaftesbury Rural District[20] North Dorset
Glanvilles Wootton 196[90] 6.90 Sturminster Rural District[60] North Dorset
Goathill Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Godmanstone 156[91] 8.18 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Gussage All Saints 208[92] 9.99 Wimborne and Cranborne Rural District[15] East Dorset
Gussage St. Michael 211[93] 9.96 Wimborne and Cranborne Rural District[15] East Dorset
Halstock 546[94] 12.99 Beaminster Rural District[26] West Dorset
Hammoon Sturminster Rural District[60] North Dorset
Hanford Sturminster Rural District[60] North Dorset
Haydon Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Hazelbury Bryan 1,059[95] 9.76 Sturminster Rural District[60] North Dorset
Hermitage Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Hilfield 324[96] 19.08 Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Hilton 477[97] 12.31 Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Hinton St Mary 240[98] 4.33 Sturminster Rural District[60] North Dorset
Hinton [68] 409[99] 8.19 Wimborne and Cranborne Rural District[15] East Dorset
Holnest 342[100] 17.86 Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Holt 1,273[101] 22.21 Wimborne and Cranborne Rural District[15] East Dorset
Holwell 369[102] 9.80 Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Hooke 157[103] 5.08 Beaminster Rural District[26] West Dorset
Horton 461[104] 9.27 Wimborne and Cranborne Rural District[15] East Dorset
Ibberton 101[105] 5.59 Sturminster Rural District[60] North Dorset
Iwerne Courtney or Shroton 541[106] 13.76 Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Iwerne Minster 978[107] 11.54 Shaftesbury Rural District[20] North Dorset
Iwerne Stepleton Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Kimmeridge Wareham and Purbeck Rural District[13] Purbeck
Kington Magna 389[108] 8.06 Shaftesbury Rural District[20] North Dorset
Langton Herring 240[109] 7.83 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Langton Long Blandford Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Langton Matravers 853[110] 8.98 Wareham and Purbeck Rural District[13] Purbeck
Leigh 480[111] 8.20 Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Leweston Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Lillington Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Littlebredy 121[112] 11.25 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Litton Cheney 359[113] 8.21 Bridport Rural District[22] West Dorset
Loders 518[114] 9.21 Bridport Rural District[22] West Dorset
Long Bredy and Kingston Russell[23] [115] Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Longburton 470[116] 4.21 Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Lydlinch 437[117] 13.74 Sturminster Rural District[60] North Dorset
Lyme Regis (town) 3,671[118] 5.01 Lyme Regis Municipal Borough[119] West Dorset
Lytchett Matravers 3,424[120] 13.80 Wareham and Purbeck Rural District[13] Purbeck
Lytchett Minster and Upton 7,983[121] 14.49 Wareham and Purbeck Rural District[13] Purbeck
Maiden Newton 1,119[122] 11.70 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Manston 225[123] 8.36 Sturminster Rural District[60] North Dorset
Mapperton Beaminster Rural District[26] West Dorset
Mappowder 166[124] 7.69 Sturminster Rural District[60] North Dorset
Margaret Marsh Shaftesbury Rural District[20] North Dorset
Marnhull 1,998[125] 15.51 Sturminster Rural District[60] North Dorset
Marshwood 346[126] 17.78 Beaminster Rural District[26] West Dorset
Melbury Abbas 305[127] 9.58 Shaftesbury Rural District[20] North Dorset
Melbury Bubb Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Melbury Osmond 199[128] 9.16 Beaminster Rural District[26] West Dorset
Melbury Sampford Beaminster Rural District[26] West Dorset
Melcombe Horsey 141[129] 8.52 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Milborne St Andrew 1,062[130] 10.66 Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Milton Abbas 755[131] 17.67 Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Minterne Magna 184[132] 10.08 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Morden 323[133] 14.87 Wareham and Purbeck Rural District[13] Purbeck
Moreton 373[134] 8.72 Wareham and Purbeck Rural District[13] Purbeck
Mosterton 604[135] 4.62 Beaminster Rural District[26] West Dorset
Motcombe 1,474[136] 19.73 Shaftesbury Rural District[20] North Dorset
Nether Cerne Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Nether Compton 328[137] 3.87 Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Netherbury 1,314[138] 25.40 Beaminster Rural District[26] West Dorset
North Poorton Beaminster Rural District[26] West Dorset
North Wootton Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Oborne 101[139] 2.46 Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Okeford Fitzpaine 913[140] 15.13 Sturminster Rural District[60] North Dorset
Osmington 673[141] 8.95 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Over Compton 183[142] 2.78 Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Owermoigne 467[143] 14.57 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Pamphill 658[144] 23.78 Wimborne and Cranborne Rural District[15] East Dorset
Piddlehinton 403[145] 11.81 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Piddletrenthide 647[146] 25.54 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Pilsdon Beaminster Rural District[26] West Dorset
Pimperne 1,109[147] 12.42 Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Portesham 685[148] 18.25 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Portland (town) 12,844[149] 12.09 Portland Urban District[150] Weymouth and Portland
Powerstock 358[151] 19.53 Beaminster Rural District[26] West Dorset
Poxwell Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Poyntington 128[152] 4.12 Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Pulham 269[153] 9.77 Sturminster Rural District[60] North Dorset
Puncknowle 466[154] 9.48 Bridport Rural District[22] West Dorset
Purse Caundle 221[155] 12.03 Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Rampisham 163[156] 12.39 Beaminster Rural District[26] West Dorset
Ryme Intrinseca 115[157] 4.70 Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Sandford Orcas 180[158] 5.75 Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Seaborough Beaminster Rural District[26] West Dorset
Shaftesbury (town) 7,314[159] 4.49 Shaftesbury Municipal Borough[160] North Dorset
Shapwick 199[161] 10.86 Wimborne and Cranborne Rural District[15] East Dorset
Sherborne (town) 9,523[162] 6.68 Sherborne Urban District[163] West Dorset
Shillingstone 1,170[164] 9.19 Sturminster Rural District[60] North Dorset
Shipton Gorge 381[165] 7.74 Bridport Rural District[22] West Dorset
Silton 123[166] 4.95 Shaftesbury Rural District[20] North Dorset
Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge [68] 1,428[167][168] 35.94 Wimborne and Cranborne Rural District[15] East Dorset
South Perrott 367[169] 8.91 Beaminster Rural District[26] West Dorset
Spetisbury 555[170] 9.10 Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
St Leonards and St Ives 6,859[171] 24.81 Ringwood and Fordingbridge Rural District[5] East Dorset
Stalbridge (town) 2,698[172] 23.63 Sturminster Rural District[60] North Dorset
Stanton St Gabriel Bridport Rural District[22] West Dorset
Steeple with Tyneham [173] 206[174] 29.65 Wareham and Purbeck Rural District[13] Purbeck
Stinsford 334[175] 13.50 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Stockwood Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Stoke Abbott 238[176] 12.10 Beaminster Rural District[26] West Dorset
Stoke Wake Sturminster Rural District[60] North Dorset
Stour Provost 579[177] 11.39 Shaftesbury Rural District[20] North Dorset
Stourpaine 617[178] 9.58 Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Stourton Caundle 439[179] 8.26 Sturminster Rural District[60] North Dorset
Stratton 592[180] 6.93 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Studland 425[181] 20.62 Wareham and Purbeck Rural District[13] Purbeck
Sturminster Marshall 1,969[182] 20.85 Wimborne and Cranborne Rural District[15] East Dorset
Sturminster Newton (town) 4,292[183] 18.39 Sturminster Rural District[60] North Dorset
Sutton Waldron 200[184] 4.65 Shaftesbury Rural District[20] North Dorset
Swanage (town) 9,601[185] 11.21 Swanage Urban District[186] Purbeck
Swyre 102[187] 4.56 Bridport Rural District[22] West Dorset
Sydling St Nicholas 414[188] 20.75 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Symondsbury 1,059[189] 15.28 Bridport Rural District[22] West Dorset
Tarrant Crawford Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Tarrant Gunville 233[190] 14.02 Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Tarrant Hinton 280[191] 13.16 Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Tarrant Keyneston 310[192] 5.45 Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Tarrant Launceston 498[193] 6.44 Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Tarrant Monkton 1,986[194] 8.62 Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Tarrant Rawston Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Tarrant Rushton 166[195] 13.40 Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Thorncombe 687[196] 22.80 Beaminster Rural District[26] West Dorset
Thornford 939[197] 9.63 Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Tincleton 236[198] 9.11 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Todber 140[199] 1.53 Shaftesbury Rural District[20] North Dorset
Toller Fratrum Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Toller Porcorum 307[200] 12.82 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Trent 317[201] 6.53 Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset
Turnworth Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Up Cerne Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Verwood (town) 14,852[202] 17.52 Wimborne and Cranborne Rural District[15] East Dorset
Wareham St. Martin 2,774[203] 29.77 Wareham and Purbeck Rural District[13] Purbeck
Wareham Town (town) 5,496[204] 6.35 Wareham Municipal Borough[205] Purbeck
Warmwell 161[206] 9.16 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
West Chelborough Beaminster Rural District[26] West Dorset
West Compton Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
West Knighton 375[207] 6.57 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
West Lulworth 714[208] 10.42 Wareham and Purbeck Rural District[13] Purbeck
West Moors 7,561[209] 8.54 Wimborne and Cranborne Rural District[15] East Dorset
West Orchard Shaftesbury Rural District[20] North Dorset
West Parley 3,585[210] 4.52 Wimborne and Cranborne Rural District[15] East Dorset
West Stafford 291[211] 4.00 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
West Stour 271[212] 8.15 Shaftesbury Rural District[20] North Dorset
Whitcombe Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Whitchurch Canonicorum 684[213] 17.43 Bridport Rural District[22] West Dorset
Wimborne Minster (town) 6,790[214] 2.64 Wimborne Minster Urban District[215] East Dorset
Wimborne St Giles 377[216] 24.04 Wimborne and Cranborne Rural District[15] East Dorset
Winfrith Newburgh 669[217] 16.02 Wareham and Purbeck Rural District[13] Purbeck
Winterborne Came Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Winterborne Clenston Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Winterborne Herringston 174[218] 17.41 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Winterborne Houghton 183[219] 7.98 Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Winterborne Kingston 643[220] 11.27 Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Winterborne Monkton Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Winterborne St Martin 755[221] 14.37 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Winterborne Stickland 653[222] 18.62 Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Winterborne Whitechurch 757[223] 13.89 Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Winterborne Zelston 203[224] 7.78 Blandford Rural District[17] North Dorset
Winterbourne Abbas 355[225] 6.12 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Winterbourne Steepleton 297[226] 7.40 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Witchampton 398[227] 8.54 Wimborne and Cranborne Rural District[15] East Dorset
Woodlands 522[228] 10.49 Wimborne and Cranborne Rural District[15] East Dorset
Woodsford Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Wool 5,310[229] 14.71 Wareham and Purbeck Rural District[13] Purbeck
Woolland 130[230] 9.00 Sturminster Rural District[60] North Dorset
Wootton Fitzpaine 345[231] 14.45 Bridport Rural District[22] West Dorset
Worth Matravers 638[232] 10.96 Wareham and Purbeck Rural District[13] Purbeck
Wraxall Beaminster Rural District[26] West Dorset
Wynford Eagle 186[233] 18.08 Dorchester Rural District[10] West Dorset
Yetminster 1,105[234] 5.98 Sherborne Rural District[24] West Dorset

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