Char Valley Parish Council Information

Welcome to the Char Valley Parish Council webpages. Char Valley is a group council and comprises the parishes of Whitchurch Canonicorum, Wootton Fitzpaine and Stanton St Gabriel. The area is all within the West Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is completely rural in character.
The parishes consist of :
  • scattered farms,
  • the villages of Whitchurch Canonicorum (pop. 640) , Wootton Fitzpaine (pop. 360) and Morcombelake (pop. 110),
  • the settlements of Fishpond, Ryall and Monkton Wyld
  • further small settlements at Stonebarrow Lane and at Fern Hill on the outskirts of Charmouth.
The A35 trunk road bisects the parishes from east to west. Stanton St Gabriel parish, between the A35 and the sea, is nearly all owned and managed by the National Trust, as are the hilltop forts which look down on the landscape of small fields, deep streams and woods of the Marshwood Vale and the Wootton valleys. The southern part of the council's area includes a section of the Jurassic Coast, England's first natural World Heritage Site.
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The Parish Council meets on a monthly basis (but not August or December). We currently have a vacancy for one councillor, so please get in touch if you think you might like to come and join us.
Char Valley Parish Council campaigns actively for the parish and its human and other residents. In recent months we have responded to / campaigned on the following issues:
See also
Parish Council Documents Archive