Sandford Orcas is a village and parish in northwest Dorset, England, 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Sherborne.

The village lies in hilly country on the Dorset/Somerset county border and was part of Somerset until 1896,[2][3] with the land connected to the Abbot of Glastonbury.

Three streams rise in the parish, and in Saxon times, the water was forded over a sandy riverbed from which the name Sandford derives.

[7] Adjacent to the manor house is the Perpendicular church of Saint Nicholas, which has a 13th-century font, shaped like an upturned Canterbury bell flower.

In the south chapel is a wall monument of carved and painted alabaster, showing a knight in armor kneeling between his two wives and eleven children.