Cann is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England.

It is situated on the A350 road in the North Dorset administrative district, 1 mile (1.5 kilometres) south of Shaftesbury.

The civil parish covers 2,600 acres (1,100 hectares) and has an underlying geology of Kimmeridge clay, greensand and gault clay.

[2] In the 2011 census the parish—which includes HM Prison Guys Marsh—had a population of 822.

[1] Media related to Cann, Dorset at Wikimedia Commons