North Wootton
North Wootton is a hamlet and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated approximately 1.5 miles southeast of Sherborne. It is sited on a narrow band of Cornbrash limestone, with Oxford clay adjacent to the southeast and Forest Marble to the northwest.Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- 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.
Sherborne Castle
Castle
Photo: JackPeasePhotography, CC BY 2.0.
Sherborne Castle is a 16th-century Tudor mansion southeast of Sherborne in Dorset, England, 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.
Sherborne Abbey
Church
Photo: Isis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sherborne Abbey, otherwise the Abbey Church of St. Mary the Virgin, is a Church of England church in Sherborne in the English county of Dorset. 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.
Sherborne railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sherborne railway station serves the town of Sherborne in Dorset, England. It is situated on the West of England Main Line, 118 miles 4 chains down the line from London Waterloo and is currently operated by South Western Railway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sherborne and Longburton.
Sherborne
Photo: Andrewrabbott, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sherborne is a small town in England. A market town and civil parish in northwest Dorset, it's sited on the River Yeo on the edge of the Blackmore Vale.
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.
Castleton
Village
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Castleton is a civil parish in the English county of Dorset. The parish virtually encircles the town of Sherborne, and contains within its boundary both Sherborne Castle and Sherborne Old Castle.
North Wootton
- Categories: village and civil parish
- Location: West Dorset District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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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”
- Welsh: “North Wootton, Dorset”
- Welsh: “North Wootton”
- “North Wootton”
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