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Sherborne

Sherborne 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.
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  • Type: Town with 10,400 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in Dorset, England
  • Also known as: “Sherborne, Dorset” and “Sherbourne”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sherborne Castle and Sherborne Abbey.

Castle
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is a 16th-century Tudor mansion southeast of Sherborne 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 of England church in Sherborne 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 Sherborne 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 Castleton and Poyntington.

Village
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a civil parish in the county of . The parish virtually encircles the town of Sherborne, and contains within its boundary both and Sherborne Old Castle.

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 Sherborne. is situated 2 miles north of Sherborne.

Village
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or Long Burton is a village in , 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. is situated 2½ miles south of Sherborne.

Sherborne

Latitude
50.9503° or 50° 57′ 1″ north
Longitude
-2.5179° or 2° 31′ 5″ west
Population
10,400
Elevation
190 feet (58 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB SHR
Open location code
9C2VXF2J+4R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 663056918
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2638033
Wiki­data ID
Q586895
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“Sherborne” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Շերբորն”
  • Asturian: “Sherborne”
  • Basque: “Sherborne”
  • Belarusian: “Шэрбарн”
  • Bengali: “শেরবর্ন”
  • Catalan: “Sherborne”
  • Cebuano: “Sherborne”
  • Chinese: “Sherborne”
  • Chinese: “社本”
  • Chinese: “舍伯恩”
  • Chinese: “謝伯恩”
  • Dutch: “Sherborne”
  • Esperanto: “Sherborne”
  • French: “Sherborne”
  • Georgian: “შერბორნი”
  • German: “Sherborne”
  • Gothic: “𐍃𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍂𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌽𐌽𐌰”
  • Greek: “Σέρμπορν”
  • Gujarati: “શેરબોર્ન”
  • Hebrew: “שרבורן”
  • Hungarian: “Sherborne”
  • Irish: “Sherborne”
  • Italian: “Sherborne”
  • Japanese: “シェアボーン”
  • Japanese: “シェルボーン”
  • Japanese: “シャーボーン”
  • Kannada: “ಷರ್ಬೊರ್ನೆ”
  • Korean: “셔번”
  • Ladin: “Sherborne”
  • Latin: “Scireburna”
  • Lithuanian: “Šerbornas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sherborne”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sherborne (Dorset)”
  • Moksha: “Шэрборн”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sherborne”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sherborne”
  • Norwegian: “Sherborne”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Scīrburna”
  • Persian: “شربورن”
  • Polish: “Sherborne”
  • Portuguese: “Sherborne”
  • Romanian: “Sherborne”
  • Russian: “Шерборн”
  • Scots: “Sherborne”
  • Slovenian: “Sherborne”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شربورن”
  • Spanish: “Sherborne”
  • Swedish: “Sherborne”
  • Tamil: “சேர்போர்ன்”
  • Telugu: “షేర్బోర్న్”
  • Ukrainian: “Шерборн”
  • Urdu: “شیربورنی”
  • Volapük: “Sherborne”
  • Welsh: “Sherborne”
  • “Sherborne”

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