Static Image Name: | Folke Manor House - geograph.org.uk - 386238.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Folke Manor House |
Country: | England |
Coordinates: | 50.9196°N -2.4864°W |
Map Type: | Dorset |
Official Name: | Folke |
Population: | 270 |
Population Ref: | [1] |
Unitary England: | Dorset |
Shire County: | Dorset |
Post Town: | Sherborne |
Postcode Area: | DT |
Postcode District: | DT9 |
Constituency Westminster: | West Dorset |
Region: | South West England |
Os Grid Reference: | ST660135 |
Folke is a parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated in the Blackmore Vale, approximately 3.5miles south-east of Sherborne. The parish has an area of 2120acres and is made of the villages of Folke and Alweston, and the hamlet of Bishops Down. Dorset County Council's 2013 estimate of the population of Folke parish is 270.[1] In the 2011 census figures have been published for the population of Folke parish combined with the small parish of North Wootton to the north; this was 339.[2]
The Manor House in the hamlet of Folke dates from about 1500 and adjoins the early 17th-century parish church.[3] The house of Font le Roi, sited by the road towards Sturminster Newton, was built as a gatehouse in the 15th century. Folke Wood is nearby.