Pulham

Pulham is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in south-west England.

It is situated in the Blackmore Vale, 7 miles (11 kilometres) southeast of Sherborne.

In the 2011 Census the civil parish had 105 dwellings,[1] 103 households and a population of 269.

[2] Pulham was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, and was once owned by Cirencester Abbey, a connection remembered in the name of Cannings Court Farm (the "Court of the Canons").

[3] George Saxby Penfold was Rector of Pulham from 1797 to 1832, but after 1815 held other livings as well.