West Stafford is a village and civil parish in southwest Dorset, England, situated in the Frome valley 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Dorchester.

[1] The village contains the public house 'The Wise Man Inn', and St Andrew's Church.

Thomas Hardy, when training as an architect, assisted in the design of Talbothays Lodge and the cottages opposite.

Reginald Bosworth Smith, schoolmaster, author and President of the Oxford Union, was born in West Stafford on 28 June 1839.

[2] His father, Reginald Southwell Smith, was the fourth son of Sir John Wyldbore Smith, Baronet, of Sydling St Nicholas, Dorset.