Sydling St Nicholas is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England. The parish is 5 to 9 miles (8.0 to 14.5 km) northwest of the Dorset county town of Dorchester, covering 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) and includes the hamlet of Up Sydling to the north The 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 Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. In addition, parts of the parish lie within the Hog Cliff National Nature Reserve and the Cerne and Sydling Downs Special Area of Conservation Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydling_St_Nicholas Location: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sydling+St+Nicholas,+Dorchester+DT2+9PB,+UK/@50.7935983,-2.5419206,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x48725b68adae9f77:0xa10f443eb98f6b0!8m2!3d50.793573!4d-2.524368