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New (click on links for more details):
    Buckland Newton Community Plan now has its own website at www.bncommunityplan.co.uk - if you want to be involved in the plans for our neighbourhood under the Localism Bill, then please check out the information on this new website.
    New Non-Emergency Police Number
    Emergency weather conditions (school closures etc)
    Post Office now operates from the Old Chapel Stores on Monday, Tuesday and Friday from 10.00 am to 1.00 pm.
    Affordable Housing
    Have a septic tank?  Need to register it?  Check out the item at the top of the What's On page

Buckland Newton Pre-School.  Buckland Newton School Staff and Governors are proud to be able to offer a new Pre-School facility starting at the end of October 2011.  This will operate Monday to Friday, 9.00 am to 12.00 noon at Buckland Newton School.  It will cater for children aged from 2 years 9 months until 5 years.  If you use your Early Years Funding Vouchers, there is no additional cost.  Non-funded hours are charged at £4 per hour.  This will be a fun, safe, stimulating environment within the school.  We offer separate outside play area for our foundation stage children for a wide range of exciting activities.  For any further information, please contact Emma or Elaine in the school office on (01300) 345393 during school hours or e-mail office@bucklandnewton.dorset.sch.uk 

Welcome to the Buckland Newton Community Website.  Buckland Newton is a village in Dorset located between Sherborne to the north and the County town of Dorchester to the south.  According to 'Dorset Place Names - their origins and meanings' (A D Mills, published by Countryside Books) the name derives "from Old English bocland 'charter land' i.e. 'land in which certain rights and privileges were granted by charter'.  The relatively recent addition of Newton is from Sturminster Newton, because at one time the Hundreds of Sturminster and Buckland were combined".

The village of Buckland Newton is situated in beautiful Dorset countryside on the edge of the Dorset Downs and within the Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The village and surrounding hamlets of Beaulieu Wood, Bookham, Brockhampton, Cosmore, Duntish, Henley and Woolford's Water have a population of around 600 and consist of a thriving mix of agricultural community, local businesses, homeworkers, workers in nearby towns and villages and retired people.

There is a busy and popular pub (The Gaggle of Geese), Post Office, Village Shop, Primary School (and Pre-School from late October 2011) and Playschool.  Nearby visitor attractions include the towns of Sherborne and Dorchester, the village of Cerne Abbas with its famous chalk giant and wonderful countryside for walking. Golf, fishing, caravanning and camping facilities are all nearby, as are holiday cottages for rent. There is a Grade 1 Listed Parish Church and a number of attractive buildings in the area.

This website is designed for residents of Buckland Newton, for visitors to the area and for people moving into the village or its surrounding communities.  We hope that you will find it helpful, informative, instructive - and hopefully entertaining.  Please take a look around, and if you have any comments about the website or the village do let us know  -  e-mail address below.

  

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Site partly developed with the aid of a grant from West Dorset District Council
Thanks also to Buckland Newton Parish Council for financial support towards website hosting costs