Chetnole
Chetnole
Human settlement in England
Chetnole is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It lies approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) south-southwest of Sherborne and 5.5 miles (8.9 km) southeast of Yeovil in Somerset. It is sited on Oxford clay[2] by the small Wriggle River at the western end of the Blackmore Vale. There are around 128 houses in the village. It has a railway station on the Heart of Wessex Line that is served by Great Western Railway services. Dorset County Council estimate that in 2013 the population of the parish was 330.[1] In the 2011 census the population of Chetnole parish combined with the small parish of Stockwood to the west was 344.[3]
Chetnole was not recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086.[4]