Fifehead Magdalen is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England.

It is sited on Corallian limestone soil[2] and surrounded by Oxford Clay,[3] about 1⁄4 mile (400 metres) from the west bank of the River Stour.

It is believed to cover a vault containing the mortal remains of several members of the Newman family who were Lords there for many centuries.

At first the family leased the Fifehead Tudor manor house from the Abbey of St Augustine's of Bristol, perhaps since 1408, but then bought the estate in the early 15th century.

[8] On the north wall of the chapel is a later and much larger monument to Richard's grandson Sir Richard Newman of Fifehead, Preston Hall and Evercreech (1676–1721), his wife Frances, his son Sir Samwell Newman (c.1696–1747) and three daughters, Frances, Barbara and Elizabeth.