Sherborne

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Sherborne Castle

Castle

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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

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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

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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.

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Longburton

Village

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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. Longburton is situated 2½ miles south of Sherborne.

Poyntington

Village

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Poyntington is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England. It lies on the edge of the Blackmore Vale about 2 miles north of Sherborne. Poyntington is situated 2½ miles northeast of Sherborne.

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