The Parish has an area of 14.38 square Kilometres (5.55 square miles or 3500 acres)
The population of the parish from the Census returns :
2021 = 732
1991 = 740
1971 = 520
1951 = 487
1931 = 516
1911 = 457
Above : Surrounding Parishes. Maiden Castle is shown within the parish on this map although it is now in neighbouring Winterborne Monkton
(did the boundary get moved at some point ?)