Lillington
Lillington is a hamlet and civil parish in north west Dorset, England, situated 3 miles south of Sherborne. Dorset County Council estimate that the population of the civil parish was 50 in 2013.Photo: Graham Horn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 79 residents
- Description: hamlet in Dorset England
- Also known as: “Lillington, Dorset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Martin and Leweston School.
Leweston School
School
Leweston School is a co-educational independent day and boarding school near Sherborne in Dorset. The School consists of a Nursery, Prep School, Senior School and Sixth Form.
Chapel Of The Holy Trinity
Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chapel Of The Holy Trinity is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Longburton and Folke.
Longburton
Village
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Longburton or Long Burton is a village in Dorset, England, three miles south of Sherborne. It is sited on a narrow outcrop of Cornbrash limestone, at the western end of Blackmore Vale. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 524.
Folke
Village
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Folke is a parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated in the Blackmore Vale, approximately 3.5 miles south-east of Sherborne. The parish has an area of 2,120 acres and is made of the villages of Folke and Alweston, and the hamlet of Bishops Down. Folke is situated 2 miles east of Lillington.
Alweston
Village
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Alweston is a village in Dorset, England, situated roughly 3.5 miles southeast of Sherborne. Historically it belonged to the Parish of Folke, in the Hundred of Sherborne. Alweston is situated 2½ miles east of Lillington.
Lillington
- Categories: hamlet, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Lillington, West Dorset District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.91325° or 50° 54′ 48″ northLongitude
-2.53167° or 2° 31′ 54″ westPopulation
79Elevation
384 feet (117 metres)Open location code
9C2VWF79+88OpenStreetMap ID
node 305807829OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2644505Wikidata ID
Q2748275
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Lillington” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lillington (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Lillington”
- Chinese: “Lillington”
- Dutch: “Lillington”
- French: “Lillington”
- Irish: “Lillington”
- Ladin: “Lillington”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lillington (Dorset)”
- Polish: “Lillington”
- Swedish: “Lillington, Dorset”
- Swedish: “Lillington”
- “Lillington”
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