Owermoigne (/ˌoʊ.ərˈmɔɪn/ OH-ər-MOYN) is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated 6 miles (9.7 km) south-east of Dorchester.
[1] The parish is within an electoral ward with the same name, which stretches from the east side of the small coastal village of Ringstead north towards Owermoigne and then up to, but not including, Crossways.
[2] The parish was formerly part of the hundred of Winfrith, and subsequently constituted a liberty by itself.
Owermoigne village is described as Nether Moynton in the fictional Wessex of Thomas Hardy's novels[3] and his short story The Distracted Preacher in Wessex Tales takes place in the village.
At Holworth is a small wooden church dedicated to St Catherine-by-the-Sea above Burning Cliff.