English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Okeford Fitzpaine

Parish in the County of Dorset

Etymology

Part of this par. (Fiddleford, etc) was transferred from Child Okeford in 1884. Belchalwell, formerly a distinct par. in Cranborne hundred, is now within this par. except for a part in Fifehead N. par. 295.

Major Settlements