Belchalwell
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Belchalwell is a village in the civil parish of Okeford Fitzpaine in the Blackmore Vale, North Dorset, and lies two and a half miles south of Sturminster Newton and six miles north-west of Blandford.
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.
