Child Okeford (sometimes written Childe Okeford) is a village in the county of Dorset in southern England. It lies in the North Dorset administrative district of the county, four miles east of the small town of Sturminster Newton. Child Okeford lies downstream from Sturminster, along the River Stour, which passes half a mile west of the village. In the 2001 Census the village had a population of 1,065, 41.9% of whom were retired.
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“Since as a child I used to lie
Upon the leaze and watch the sky,
Never, I own, expected I
That life would all be fair.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)