Welcome to Belview Cottage, a charming self-catering holiday cottage situated in the heart of the beautiful Blackmore Vale in North Dorset, south west UK.

Belview Cottage has one double and one twin room and has been completely refurbished and equipped to a very high standard. The Cottage provides the perfect location for a family holiday from which to enjoy the beautiful surrounding countryside, whilst being within easy reach of the Jurassic Coast and other tourist attractions. The historic towns of Dorchester and Sherborne are both about 25 minutes drive away and the coast at Weymouth and Lyme Regis is about an hour away through beautiful Dorset Countryside.

There is easy access to a range of footpaths for walkers, including the Wessex Ridgeway and the Hardy Trail – well-behaved dogs welcome, with prior notification. Travel cot, high chair and other baby equipment available on request. Free Wi-Fi internet access also available.

The cottage is situated in the hamlet of Fifehead Neville, a few miles from the market town of Sturminster Newton. The name Fifehead Neville is derived from the Saxon word Fithyde – a hide was originally the amount of land which would support life for a free peasant family, which in Wessex was 48 acres. So Fithyde was a village of 240 acres in the time of the Domesday Book. William de Nevill, who came over from Neuville in Normandy, gave the hamlet the second part of the name.

Foundations of a Roman villa were excavated in a nearby field in 1881 and 1902-1905. You can see artefacts from the site in Sturminster Newton Museum. One of the few surviving medieval packhorse bridges in the country crosses the little river Divelish at the lower end of the hamlet – the river is aptly named since during heavy rain, it can rapidly rise to five feet deep at the ford! The parish church, dedicated to All Saints, dates in part from the 14th century, with later additions.