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A
Abbotsbury [P]<--
Affpuddle [P]
(inc. Briantspuddle)
Alderholt [P]
Allington [P]
Almer [P]
(inc. Mapperton)
Alton Pancras [P]
Arne [P]
Ashmore [P]
Askerswell [P]
Athelhampton [P]
(inc. Burleston)

B
Batcombe [P]
Beaminster [P]<--
Beer Hackett [P]
Belchalwell [P]
Bere Regis [P]
(inc. Shitterton)
Bettiscombe [P]<--
Bincombe [P]
Bishop's Caundle [P]
Blackdown [P]
Blandford Forum [P]<--
Blandford St Mary [P]
Bloxworth [P]
Bothenhampton [P]
Bournemouth [P]<--
Bourton [P]<--
Bradford Abbas [P]
(inc. Clifton Maybank)
Bradford Peverell [P]<--
(inc. Muckleford)
Bradpole [P]
Branksome Park [P]
Bridport [P]<--
Broadmayne [P]
Broadstone [P]
Broadwey [P]
Broadwindsor [P]
(inc. Blackdown, Drimpton & Netherhay)
Brownsea Island
(aka Branksea)
Bryanston [P]
Buckhorn Weston [P]<--
Buckland Newton [P]<--
(inc. Plush)
Buckland Ripers [P]
Burleston [P]
(inc. Athelhampton)
Burstock [P]<--
Burton Bradstock [P]

C
Canford Magna [P]
Cann [P]
(aka Shaston St Rumbold)
Castleton [see Sherborne] [P]
Catherston Leweston [P]
Cattistock [P]
Caundle Marsh [P]
Cerne Abbas [P]
Chalbury [P]
Chaldon Herring [P]
Chardstock [P]<--
Charlton Marshall [P]
Charminster [P]<--
Charmouth [P]
Chedington [P]
Cheselbourne [P]
Chetnole [P]
Chettle [P]
Chickerell [P]
Chideock [P]
Chilcombe [P]
Child Okeford [P]
Chilfrome [P]
Christchurch [P]
(inc. Burton & Hurn)
Church Knowle [P]
Colehill
Compton Abbas [P]
Compton Valence [P]
Coombe Keynes [P]
Corfe Castle [P]<--
Corfe Mullen [P]
Corscombe [P]
(inc. Benville & Toller Whelme)
Cranborne [P]
(inc. Alderholt, Blagdon & Boveridge)

D
Dalwood
Dewlish [P]
Dorchester [P]<--
Durweston [P]

E
East Chelborough
East Holme [P]
East Lulworth [E]
East Orchard [P]
East Stoke [P]
East Stour/Stower [P]
Edmondsham [P]
Evershot [P]

F
Farnham [P]
Fifehead Magdalen [P]
Fifehead Neville [P]
Fleet [P]
Folke [P]
(inc. Alweston)
Fontmell Magna [P]
Fordington [P]<--
Frampton [P]
(inc. Southover)
Frome St Quintin [P]
Frome Vauchurch [P]

G
Gillingham [P]<--
(inc. Milton-on-Stour, Sandley & Huntingford)
Glanvilles Wootton [P]
Goathill<--
Godmanstone [P]
Gussage All Saints [P]
Gussage St Andrew [P]
Gussage St Michael [P]

H
Halstock [P]
Hammoon [P]
Hampreston [P]<--
(Ferndown Town from 1986, inc. Stapehill & Longham)
Hamworthy [P]
Hanford [P]
Hawkchurch [P]<--
Haydon [P]
Hazelbury Bryan [P]
Heatherlands
Hermitage [P]
Highcliffe
Hilfield [P]
Hilton [P]
Hinton Martell [P]
Hinton Parva [P]
Hinton St Mary [P]
Holdenhurst [P]
Holnest [P]
Holt [P]
Holwell [P]
Hooke
Horton with Woodlands [P]

I
Ibberton [P]
Iwerne Courtney [P]
Iwerne Minster [P]
Iwerne Stepleton
(aka Stepleton Preston)

K
Kimmeridge [P]
Kingston [E]
Kingston Lacy [P]
Kington Magna [P]
Kinson [P]

L
Langton Herring [P]
Langton Long Blandford [P]
Langton Matravers [P]
Leigh [P]
Lillington [P]
Little Bredy[P]
Litton Cheney [P]
Loders [P]
Long Bredy [P]
(inc. Kingston Russell)
Long Crichel [P]
Longburton [P]
Longfleet [P]
Lydlinch [P]
(inc. King's Stag)
Lyme Regis [P]<--
Lytchett Matravers [P]
Lytchett Minster [P]

M
Maiden Newton [P]
Manston [P]
Mapperton [P]
Mappowder [P]

M [continued]
Margaret Marsh [P]
Marnhull [P]
Marshwood [P]
Melbury Abbas [P]
Melbury Bubb [P]
Melbury Osmond [P]
Melbury Sampford [P]
Melcombe Horsey [P]
Melcombe Regis [P]<--
Melplash [P]<--
Milborne St Andrew [P]
Milborne Stileham [P]
Milton Abbas [P]
Minterne Magna [P]
(inc. Gorewood)
Monkton Wyld [P]<--
Moor Crichel [P]
Morden [P]
(inc. Charborough)
Moreton [P]<--
(inc. Hurst)
Mosterton [P]
Motcombe [P]
(inc. Enmore Green)

N
Netherbury [P]
(inc. Salway Ash)
Nether Cerne [P]
Nether Compton [P]
New Borough & Leigh
North Poorton [P]
North Wootton [P]<--

O
Oborne [P]
Okeford Fitzpaine [P]
Osmington [P]<--
Over Compton [P]
Owermoigne [P]

P
Pamphill [P]
Parkstone [P]
(inc. Lilliput)
Pentridge [P]
(with East & West Woodyates)
Piddlehinton [P]
Piddletrenthide [P]
Pilsdon [P]<--
Pimperne [P]
Plush [P]
Poole [P]<--
Portesham [P]<--
Portland [P]
(inc. Fortuneswell & Chesil)
Powerstock [P]<--
(inc. West Milton)
Poxwell [P]<--
(inc. Watercombe)
Poyntington
Preston [P]
(inc. Sutton Poyntz)
Puddletown [P]
Pulham [P]
Puncknowle [P]
(inc. Bexington)
Purse Caundle [P]

R
Radipole [P]<--
Rampisham [P]
Ryme Intrinseca [P]

S
Sandford Orcas [P]
Seaborough [P]
Shaftesbury Holy Trinity [P]
Shaftesbury St James [P]
Shaftesbury St Peter [P]<--
Shapwick [P]<--
Sherborne [P]<--
Shillingstone [P]
Shipton Gorge [P]<--
Silton [P]<--
Sixpenny Handley [P]
South Perrott [P]<--
Spetisbury [P]
Stalbridge [P]<--
Stanton St Gabriel [P]
(inc. Morcombelake)
Steeple [P]
Stinsford [P]
Stock Gaylard [P]
Stockland
Stockwood [P]
Stoke Abbott [P]<--
Stoke Wake [P]
Stourpaine [P]<--
Stour Provost [P]
(inc. Stour Row)

S [continued]
Stourton Caundle [P]<--
Stratton [P]
Studland [P]
Sturminster Marshall [P]
Sturminster Newton [P]<--
(inc. Bagber)
Sutton Waldron [P]
Swanage [P]<--
Swyre [P]
Sydling St Nicholas [P]
Symondsbury [P]
(inc. Broadoak, Eype & West Bay)

T
Talbot Village [P]
Tarrant Crawford [P]
Tarrant Gunville [P]
Tarrant Hinton [P]
Tarrant Keyneston [P]
Tarrant Monkton [P]
(inc. Tarrant Launceston)
Tarrant Rawston [P]
Tarrant Rushton [P]
Thorncombe [P]<--
Thornford [P]
Tincleton [P]
Todber [P]
Toller Fratrum [P]
Toller Porcorum [P]<--
Tolpuddle [P]<--
Trent [P]
Turner's Puddle [P]
Turnworth [P]
Tyneham [E]

U
Up Cerne [P]
Upwey [P]

V
Verwood [P]

W
Walditch <--
Wambrook
Wareham [P]<--
Warmwell [P]<--
(inc. Watercombe)
West Chelborough [P]
West Compton
West Knighton [P]
West Lulworth [E]
West Moors [P]
West Orchard [P]
West Parley [P]
West Stafford [P]
(inc. Frome Billet)
West Stour/Stower [P]
West Woodyates [P]
Weymouth [P]<--
Whitchurch Canonicorum [P]<--
(inc. Fishponds Bottom)
Whitcombe [P]
Wimborne All Saints
Wimborne Minster [P]<--
Wimborne St Giles [P]
Winfrith Newburgh [P]
(inc. East Burton & East Knighton)
Winterborne Anderson [P]
Winterborne Came
(inc. Cripton)
Winterborne Clenston [P]
Winterborne Herringston
Winterborne Houghton [P]
Winterborne Kingston [P]
(inc. Winterborne Muston)
Winterborne Monkton
Winterborne St Martin [P]
(aka. Martinstown)
Winterborne Stickland [P]<--
Winterborne Tomson [P]
Winterborne Whitechurch [P]
Winterborne Zelston [P]
(inc. Huish)
Winterbourne Abbas [E]
Winterbourne Steepleton [E]
Witchampton [P]
Woodsford [P]
Wool [P]
Woolland [P]
Wootton Fitzpaine [P]
Worth Matravers [P]
Wraxall [P]
Wyke Regis [P]
Wynford Eagle [P]

Y
Yetminster [P]

[E] indicates an external site [P] indicates there is an OPC & parish page
[P] indicates a parish page exists but the position of OPC is currently vacant

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