North Wootton

North Wootton is a hamlet and civil parish in , , situated approximately 1.5 miles southeast of . It is sited on a narrow band of Cornbrash limestone, with Oxford clay adjacent to the southeast and Forest Marble to the northwest.
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  • Type: Locality with 49 residents
  • Description: village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “North Wootton, Dorset”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sherborne Castle and Sherborne Abbey.

Castle
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is a 16th-century Tudor mansion located southeast of in , , within the parish of . 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 in in the English county of . It was formerly a Saxon cathedral and a Benedictine abbey church, before becoming a Church of England parish church in 1539 during the dissolution of the monasteries.

Railway station
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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 Longburton.

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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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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.

Village
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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.

North Wootton

Latitude
50.9311° or 50° 55′ 52″ north
Longitude
-2.4934° or 2° 29′ 36″ west
Population
49
Elevation
361 feet (110 metres)
Open location code
9C2VWGJ4+CJ
Geo­Names ID
7293429
Wiki­data ID
Q11793004
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Welsh—“North Wootton” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “North Wootton (parokya sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Dorset)”
  • Cebuano: “North Wootton”
  • Dutch: “North Wootton, Dorset”
  • French: “North Wootton”
  • Irish: “North Wootton”
  • Ladin: “North Wootton (Dorset)”
  • Ladin: “North Wootton”
  • Polish: “North Wootton (Dorset)”
  • Polish: “North Wootton”
  • Swedish: “North Wootton, Dorset”
  • Swedish: “North Wootton”
  • Urdu: “نارتھ ووٹن، ڈورسیٹ”
  • Welsh: “North Wootton, Dorset”
  • Welsh: “North Wootton”
  • “North Wootton”

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