River Yeo
River Yeo is a river in Sherborne, West Dorset District, England. River Yeo is situated nearby to the village Castleton, as well as near the hamlet Nether Coombe.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 Longburton and Castleton.
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.
Folke
Village
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Folke is a parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated in the Blackmore Vale, approximately 3.5 miles south-east of Sherborne. The parish has an area of 2,120 acres and is made of the villages of Folke and Alweston, and the hamlet of Bishops Down.
River Yeo
- Type: River
- Category: body of water
- Location: Sherborne, West Dorset District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.9423° or 50° 56′ 32″ northLongitude
-2.5163° or 2° 30′ 59″ westOpen location code
9C2VWFRM+WFOpenStreetMap ID
way 86267065OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=river
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