Milborne St Andrew

Milborne St Andrew is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England.

It is situated on the A354 road, 9 miles (14 kilometres) northeast of the county town Dorchester, in a winterbourne valley on the dip slope of the Dorset Downs.

[2] Weatherby Castle is an Iron Age hill fort that encloses about 17+1⁄2 acres (7 hectares) on a spur of land about 3⁄4 mile (1.2 kilometres) south of the village.

[3] In 1086 in the Domesday Book Milborne St Andrew was recorded as Meleburne;[4] it had 10 households, 4 ploughlands, 5 acres (2 hectares) of meadow and one mill.

[6] The ward is part of the constituency of North Dorset that is currently (2024) represented in the UK parliament by the Conservative Simon Hoare.

The Square, Milborne St Andrew, circa 1900