ORCHARD (EAST), a parish in that part of the hundred of SIXPENNY-HANDLEY which is in the Shaston (West) division of the county of DORSET, 4 miles (S. S. W.) from Shaftesbury, containing 193 inhabitants The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Iwerne-Minster, in the archdeaconry of Dorset" and diocese of Bristol.