| Sydling St Nicholas | |
|---|---|
 High Street, Sydling St Nicholas | |
  Sydling St Nicholas Location within Dorset | |
| Population | 414 |
| OS grid reference | SY632995 |
| Unitary authority | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Dorchester |
| Postcode district | DT2 |
| Dialling code | 01300 |
| Police | Dorset |
| Fire | Dorset and Wiltshire |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| UK Parliament | |
| Website | Village website |
Sydling St Nicholas is a village and civil parish in Dorset within southwest England. The parish is 5 to 9 miles (8.0 to 14.5 km) northwest of the county town Dorchester and covers most of the valley of the small Sydling Water in the chalk hills of the Dorset Downs. The parish has an area of 2,075 hectares (5,130 acres)[1] and includes the hamlet of Up Sydling in the north.
Sydling St Nicholas village was recorded in the 11th-century Domesday Book, though evidence of much earlier human occupation has been found in the surrounding area. Over the last thousand years the village has been owned by Milton Abbey, Sir Francis Walsingham and Winchester College.
The whole of Sydling St Nicholas parish lies within the Dorset National Landscape area. In addition, parts of the parish lie within the Hog Cliff National Nature Reserve and the Cerne and Sydling Downs Special Area of Conservation.
In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 414.[1]
- ^ a b "Usual Resident Population, 2011, Neighbourhood Statistics, Sydling St Nicholas (parish)". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 7 February 2013.