Okeford Fitzpaine

Okeford Fitzpaine

Coordinates: 50°53′50″N 2°16′32″W / 50.8971°N 2.2756°W / 50.8971; -2.2756

Coordinates: 50°53′50″N 2°16′32″W / 50.8971°N 2.2756°W / 50.8971; -2.2756 Okeford Fitzpaine (/ˈoʊkfərd fɪtsˈpeɪn/) is a village in the county of Dorset in southwest England. It is situated in the North Dorset administrative district of the county, three miles south of the town of Sturminster Newton. It lies in the Blackmore Vale under the scarp face of the Dorset Downs. As of 2001 the population of the civil parish of the village, including the hamlets of Belchalwell to the west and Fiddleford to the north, was 979.

Within the parish are about 55 Listed houses, a green Listed telephone box, and also a tiny museum exhibiting the village's own early nineteenth century fire-engine and the World War II air-raid siren issued to the village post office.