West Orchard is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England.

It is situated in the Blackmore Vale in the North Dorset administrative district, approximately halfway between the towns of Shaftesbury and Sturminster Newton.

[2] St Luke's Church was rebuilt in 1876–77 to the designs of Thomas Henry Wyatt, but the chancel is 15th-century.

[3] The name of West Orchard is first attested in a charter of 939 (surviving in a fifteenth-century copy), in the form Archet.

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