Purse Caundle is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England.

It lies within the Dorset Council administrative area, about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Sherborne.

[1] Purse Caundle manor house was built in the 15th century under the instruction of Richard Long, who bought 575 acres of land here in 1428.

[2] The manor's site was recorded as early as the Domesday Book in 1086, when it was a tenancy of Athelney Abbey.

[3] The village church provides the final resting place for the seventeenth-century physician Nathaniel Highmore, whose father was rector here.