Child Okeford (sometimes written Childe Okeford) is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated 3 miles (4.8 km) east of the small town of Sturminster Newton in the North Dorset administrative district. Child Okeford lies downstream from Sturminster, along the River Stour, which passes half a mile west of the village. In the 2011 census the civil parish had a population of 1,114.