Belchalwell
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Belchalwell is a village in Okeford Fitzpaine Parish in the Blackmore Vale, North Dorset, and lies two and a half miles south-west of Shillingstone, eight miles north-east of Blandford and four miles south of Sturminster Newton.
The village lies under the north slopes of Bell Hill, part of the Dorset Downs, and is Saxon in origin, with a medieval church, much renovated.
The village has approximately 30 properties with less than a hundred residents, and is much reduced in size from former times, largely due to reductions in agricultural employment, which has always been the primary industry.
