ORCHARD (WEST), a parish in that part of the
hundred of SIXPENNY-HANDLEY which is in the Shaston
(West) division of the county of DORSET, 5 miles
(S. S.W.) from Shaftesbury, containing 173 inhabitants.-
The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage
of Fontmell-Magna, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and
diocese of Bristol.