Dorset
West Dorset District
Castleton

Sham Castle Ruins

Sham Castle Ruins is a building in , , . Sham Castle Ruins is situated nearby to the ruins , as well as near .
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Sherborne Old Castle and Sherborne Castle.

Castle
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is situated 400 feet northwest of Sham Castle Ruins.

Castle
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is a 16th-century Tudor mansion 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. is situated 960 feet south of Sham Castle Ruins.

Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is situated 960 feet northwest of Sham Castle Ruins.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sherborne and Alweston.

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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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is a village in , , situated roughly 3.5 miles southeast of . Historically it belonged to the Parish of , in the Hundred of Sherborne. is situated 2 miles southeast of Sham Castle Ruins.

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. is situated 2 miles south of Sham Castle Ruins.

Sham Castle Ruins

Latitude
50.94864° or 50° 56′ 55″ north
Longitude
-2.50107° or 2° 30′ 4″ west
Open location code
9C2VWFXX+FH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 559399328
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­folly
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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Sherborne Old Castle and Sherborne Steam & Waterwheel Centre.

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