location of the now-defunct girls' boarding school, Croft House School. The independent Hanford School is also near the village. Governance Shillingstone is the most populous area of Bulbarrow electoral ward, which extends south to Winterbourne Strickland and had a population of 1,850 in the 2011 census. Bulbarrow forms part of the constituency of North Dorset, which is currently represented in the UK parliament by the Conservative Simon Hoare. References External links Shillingstone Station Project Villages in Dorset