In the 2011 census the parish, including the villages of Melplash and Salway Ash, and the small settlements of Atrim, Oxbridge, Waytown, North and South Bowood, Wooth, Silkhay, Mangerton, Whitecross, Filford, Dottery, Hincknowle and Loscombe, had a population of 1,314.

[1] Netherbury is within an electoral ward that bears its name and stretches south to the edge of Bridport.

[3] The River Brit used to serve several mills to process the flax used in Bridport's rope-making industry.

[4] The novelist Mary Anna Needell lived in Netherbury with her family in the 1880s.

[5] Kingsland House was the birthplace of Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, 1st Baronet (1762–1814).