Over Coombe
Over Coombe is a hamlet in Castleton, West Dorset District, England. Over Coombe is situated nearby to the hamlet Higher Clatcombe, as well as near the locality Lower Clatcombe.Places of Interest
Highlights include Sherborne Abbey and Sherborne Castle.
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 Abbey is situated 1½ miles southeast of Over Coombe.
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 Castle is situated 2 miles southeast of Over Coombe.
Sherborne House
Historic building
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Sherborne House is a Grade I listed building in Newland, Sherborne, Dorset, England. Sherborne House is situated 1½ miles southeast of Over Coombe.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sherborne and Adber.
Sherborne
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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.
Adber
Hamlet
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Adber is a hamlet in the civil parish of Trent in Dorset, England. It is known as Ateberie in the Domesday Book. The toponym is Old English, from Ēata and bearu, and means "grove of a man named Eata". Adber is situated 2 miles northwest of Over Coombe.
Poyntington
Village
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 2 miles northeast of Over Coombe.
Over Coombe
- Type: Hamlet
- Category: locality
- Location: Castleton, West Dorset District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.96348° or 50° 57′ 49″ northLongitude
-2.5436° or 2° 32′ 37″ westOpen location code
9C2VXF74+9HOpenStreetMap ID
node 8911224876OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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