East Orchard
East Orchard is a small village and parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It lies in the Blackmore Vale within the Dorset administrative district.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet with 151 residents
- Description: village in Dorset, England, UK
- Also known as: “East Orchard, Dorset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Thomas’s Church, East Orchard and Church of St Margaret.
St Thomas’s Church, East Orchard
Church
St Thomas's Church is a Grade II listed building in East Orchard, Dorset. The church dates from 1859. The Diocese of Salisbury discontinued services in 2018, and in 2023 planning permission as granted to turn the church into a residential property.
HM Prison Guys Marsh
Prison
Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
HM Prison Guys Marsh is a Category C men's prison, located near Shaftesbury, Dorset, England. Guys Marsh is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service. HM Prison Guys Marsh is situated 2 miles north of East Orchard.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hartgrove and West Orchard.
West Orchard
Village
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
West Orchard is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It is situated in the Blackmore Vale in the Dorset administrative district, approximately halfway between the towns of Shaftesbury and Sturminster Newton.
Fontmell Magna
Village
Photo: Nigel Mykura, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fontmell Magna is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England. It is situated in the Blackmore Vale, close to the chalk hills of Cranborne Chase, on the A350 road five miles south of Shaftesbury and eight miles north of Blandford Forum. Fontmell Magna is situated 2 miles east of East Orchard.
East Orchard
- Categories: village, civil parish, and locality
- Location: East Orchard, North Dorset District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.95783° or 50° 57′ 28″ northLongitude
-2.23638° or 2° 14′ 11″ westPopulation
151Elevation
240 feet (73 metres)Open location code
9C2VXQ57+4COpenStreetMap ID
node 436174199OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2650360Wikidata ID
Q2734354
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“East Orchard” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “East Orchard”
- Chinese: “East Orchard”
- Dutch: “East Orchard”
- French: “East Orchard”
- Irish: “East Orchard”
- Italian: “East Orchard”
- Ladin: “East Orchard”
- Min Nan Chinese: “East Orchard”
- Persian: “اورچارد شرقی”
- Polish: “East Orchard”
- Swedish: “East Orchard”
- Turkish: “East Orchard”
- Welsh: “East Orchard”
- “East Orchard”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “East Orchard”. Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.