It lies within the East Dorset administrative district of the county, three miles north of the town of Wimborne Minster.

In 1905 in his Highways and Byways in Dorset, Sir Frederick Treves called the original "a fountain as may be found in a suburban tea garden or in front of a gaudy Italian villa."

He continues, "The fountain, of painted metal, tawdry and flimsy, represents a boy standing in one dish while he holds another on his head.

No unhappy detail is spared: the ambitious pedestal, the three impossible dolphins, and the paltry squirt of water, are all here.

It was replaced, and was revealed in 1965 by Miss Ann Sidney of Poole, the 'Miss World' winner of that year.