Terrace Playing Fields

Terrace Playing Fields is a recreation area in Sherborne, West Dorset District, England. Terrace Playing Fields is situated nearby to the pitch Sherborne Town FC, as well as near Sherborne RFC.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Sherborne railway station and Sherborne Abbey.

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. Sherborne railway station is situated 1,500 feet north of Terrace Playing Fields.

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 Abbey is situated 2,600 feet north of Terrace Playing Fields.

Sherborne Castle

Castle

Photo: JackPeasePhotography, CC BY 2.0.

Sherborne Castle is a 16th-century Tudor mansion located 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 3,500 feet northeast of Terrace Playing Fields.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Castleton and Longburton.

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.

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. Longburton is situated 1½ miles south of Terrace Playing Fields.

Alweston

Village

Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Alweston is a village in Dorset, England, situated roughly 3.5 miles southeast of Sherborne. Historically it belonged to the Parish of Folke, in the Hundred of Sherborne. Alweston is situated 2 miles southeast of Terrace Playing Fields.

Terrace Playing Fields

Type: Sports location
Category: recreation area
Location: Sherborne, West Dorset District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.93997° or 50° 56′ 24″ north

Longitude

-2.51266° or 2° 30′ 46″ west

Open location code

9C2VWFQP+XW

OpenStreetMap ID

way 86278967

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=recreation_ground

OpenStreetMap feature

sport=rugby

OpenStreetMap feature

sport=soccer

OpenStreetMap feature

sport=tennis

OpenStreetMap feature

sport=cricket

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