Sutton Waldron

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox UK placeTemplate:Distinguish Sutton Waldron is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, situated on the A350 road between Iwerne Minster and Fontmell Magna, in the Blackmore Vale under the scarp of Cranborne Chase, Template:Convert north of Blandford Forum and Template:Convert south of Shaftesbury. In the 2011 census the parish had 93 dwellings,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 87 households and a population of 200.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The parish covers about Template:Convert in a strip of land that, from west to east, is composed of Kimmeridge clay, Lower Greensand, Gault Clay, Upper Greensand and chalk.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1086 in the Domesday Book, Sutton Waldron was recorded as Sudtone;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> it had 24 households, one mill, six ploughlands, Template:Convert of meadow and Template:Convert of woodland. It was in the hundred of Gillingham and the lord and tenant-in-chief was Waleran the hunter.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The parish church dates from 1847 and is constructed in the Decorated Gothic style.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

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