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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Famous quotes containing the word child:
“You went on with your dying.
Nothing could stop you. Not your son. Not your daughter
Who fed you and made you into a child again.”
—Mark Strand (b. 1934)