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Castleton

Castleton is a civil parish in the county of . The parish virtually encircles the town of , and contains within its boundary both and Sherborne Old Castle.
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  • Type: Village with 159 residents
  • Description: civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Castleton, Dorset”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sherborne Castle and Sherborne Abbey.

Castle
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is a 16th-century Tudor mansion southeast of in , , within the parish of Castleton. Originally built by Sir Walter Raleigh as Sherborne Lodge, and extended in the 1620s, it stands in a 1,200-acre park which formed a small part of the 15,000-acre Digby estate.

Church
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, otherwise the Abbey Church of St. Mary the Virgin, is a Church of England church in in the English county of . It was formerly a Saxon Catholic cathedral and a Benedictine abbey church, before becoming a Church of England parish church in 1539 during the dissolution of the monasteries.

Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
serves the town of in , England. It is situated on the West of England Main Line, 118 miles 4 chains down the line from and is currently operated by South Western Railway.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sherborne and Poyntington.

Photo: Andrewrabbott, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a small town in . A market town and civil parish in northwest Dorset, it's sited on the River Yeo on the edge of the Blackmore Vale.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the county of in . It lies on the edge of the Blackmore Vale about 2 miles north of . is situated 2 miles north of Castleton.

Village
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or Long Burton is a village in , England, three miles south of . 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. is situated 2 miles south of Castleton.

Castleton

Latitude
50.9494° or 50° 56′ 58″ north
Longitude
-2.5038° or 2° 30′ 14″ west
Population
159
Elevation
226 feet (69 metres)
Open location code
9C2VWFXW+PF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8932353977
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
7291598
Wiki­data ID
Q4620068
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Welsh—“Castleton” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Castleton”
  • Chinese: “Castleton”
  • Dutch: “Castleton”
  • French: “Castleton”
  • Irish: “Castleton”
  • Italian: “Castleton (Dorset)”
  • Italian: “Castleton”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Castleton (Dorset)”
  • Polish: “Castleton”
  • Swedish: “Castleton (parish i Storbritannien, England, Dorset)”
  • Swedish: “Castleton, Dorset”
  • Welsh: “Castleton, Dorset”
  • Welsh: “Castleton”
  • “Castleton”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Church of St Mary Magdalene and Sherborne Old Castle.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Castleton”. Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.