Purse Caundle is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England. It lies within the Dorset Council administrative area, about east of Sherborne. In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 90. The manor's site was recorded as early as the Domesday Book in 1086, when it was a tenancy of Athelney Abbey.
The village church provides the final resting place for the seventeenth-century physician Nathaniel Highmore, whose father was rector here.