Sherborne is a
market town
A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city. In Britain, small rural ...
and
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...
in north west
Dorset
Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset (unitary authority), Dors ...
, in
South West England
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. It is sited on the
River Yeo, on the edge of the
Blackmore Vale
The Blackmore Vale (; less commonly spelt ''Blackmoor'') is a vale, or wide valley, in north Dorset, and to a lesser extent south Somerset and southwest Wiltshire in southern England.
Geography
The vale is part of the Stour valley, part of t ...
, east of
Yeovil
Yeovil ( ) is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the district of South Somerset, England. The population of Yeovil at the last census (2011) was 45,784. More recent estimates show a population of 48,564. It is close to Somer ...
. The parish includes the hamlets of Nether Coombe and Lower Clatcombe. The
A30 road
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The road has been a principal axis in Britain from the 17th century to early 19th century, as a major coaching route. It used to provide the fastest route from Londo ...
, which connects London to
Penzance
Penzance ( ; kw, Pennsans) is a town, civil parish and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is the most westerly major town in Cornwall and is about west-southwest of Plymouth and west-southwest of London. Situated ...
, runs through the town. In the
2011 census the population of Sherborne parish and the two
electoral wards
The wards and electoral divisions in the United Kingdom are electoral districts at sub-national level, represented by one or more councillors. The ward is the primary unit of English electoral geography for civil parishes and borough and distri ...
was 9,523.
28.7% of the population is aged 65 or older.
Sherborne's historic buildings include
Sherborne Abbey
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 has been a Saxon cathedral (705–1075), a Benedictine abbey church (998–1539), and since 1539, ...
, its
manor house
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals w ...
,
independent school
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s, and two castles: the ruins of a 12th-century fortified palace and the 16th-century mansion known as
Sherborne Castle
Sherborne Castle is a 16th-century Tudor mansion southeast of Sherborne in Dorset, England, within the parish of Castleton. It stands in a park which formed a small part of the Digby estate.
Old castle
Sherborne Old Castle () is the ruin ...
built by
Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh (; – 29 October 1618) was an English statesman, soldier, writer and explorer. One of the most notable figures of the Elizabethan era, he played a leading part in English colonisation of North America, suppressed rebellion ...
. Much of the old town, including the abbey and many
medieval
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and
Georgian
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** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group
** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians
**Georgian scripts, three scrip ...
buildings, is built from distinctive
ochre
Ochre ( ; , ), or ocher in American English, is a natural clay earth pigment, a mixture of ferric oxide and varying amounts of clay and sand. It ranges in colour from yellow to deep orange or brown. It is also the name of the colours produced ...
-coloured
ham stone
Hamstone is the name given to a honey-coloured building stone from Ham Hill, Somerset, England. It is a well-cemented medium to coarse grained limestone characterised by marked bedding planes of clay inclusions and less well-cemented material w ...
.
The town is served by
Sherborne railway station
Sherborne railway station serves the town of Sherborne in Dorset, England. It is situated on the West of England Main Line, down the line from and is currently operated by South Western Railway.
History
The station was opened by the Salisb ...
.
Toponymy
The town was named ''scir burne'' by the
Saxon
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*
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peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, la, Saxonia) near the Nor ...
inhabitants, a name meaning "clear stream", after a brook that runs through the centre of the town,
and is referred to as such in the
Domesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...
.
History
![SherborneConduit](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/SherborneConduit.jpg)
In 705 the
diocese
In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, pro ...
of
Wessex
la, Regnum Occidentalium Saxonum
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was split between Sherborne and
Winchester
Winchester is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government Districts of England, district, at the western end of the South Downs Nation ...
, and
King Ine founded an abbey for
St Aldhelm
Aldhelm ( ang, Ealdhelm, la, Aldhelmus Malmesberiensis) (c. 63925 May 709), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey, Bishop of Sherborne, and a writer and scholar of Latin poetry, was born before the middle of the 7th century. He is said to have been the so ...
, the first
Bishop of Sherborne
The Bishop of Sherborne is an episcopal title which takes its name from the market town of Sherborne in Dorset, England. The see of Sherborne was established in around 705 by St Aldhelm, the Abbot of Malmesbury. This see was the mother diocese o ...
, which covered Dorset, Somerset, and Devon. King
Alfred the Great
Alfred the Great (alt. Ælfred 848/849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf and his first wife Osburh, who bot ...
's elder brothers,
King Æthelbald and
King Æthelberht, are buried in the abbey. The large Sherborne diocese lasted until about 909 when it was further sub-divided into three sees, with Sherborne covering Dorset. In 933, King
Æthelstan
Æthelstan or Athelstan (; ang, Æðelstān ; on, Aðalsteinn; ; – 27 October 939) was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927 and King of the English from 927 to his death in 939. He was the son of King Edward the Elder and his first ...
granted land at Sherborne to the nuns of
Shaftesbury Abbey under the condition that they would recite the Psalter once a year on All Saints' day and say prayers for the king. The bishop's seat was moved to
Old Sarum in 1075 and the church at Sherborne became a
Benedictine
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, foun ...
monastery
A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which ...
. In 1437 the Abbey was damaged by fire after tensions between the town and the monastery came to a head, but much of the
Norman
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* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries
** People or things connected with the Norm ...
structure stands today. Following the
Dissolution of the Monasteries, in 1539, the vacated monastery buildings were bought by Sir
John Horsey and became the parish church. Sherborne was the centre of a
hundred of the same name for many centuries.
In the 12th century
Roger de Caen
Roger of Salisbury (died 1139), was a Normans, Norman medieval bishop of Salisbury and the seventh Lord Chancellor and Lord Keeper of Norman England, England.
Life
Roger was originally priest of a small chapel near Caen in Duchy of Normandy, Norm ...
,
Bishop of Salisbury and
Chancellor of England, built a fortified palace in Sherborne. During the
English Civil War
The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians (" Roundheads") and Royalists led by Charles I ("Cavaliers"), mainly over the manner of England's governance and issues of re ...
, the palace was destroyed in 1645 by
General Fairfax
Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron (17 January 161212 November 1671), also known as Sir Thomas Fairfax, was an English politician, general and Parliamentary commander-in-chief during the English Civil War. An adept and talented command ...
. Its ruins are now owned by
English Heritage
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places. These include prehistoric sites, medieval castles, Roman forts and country houses.
The charity states that i ...
.
In 1594
Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh (; – 29 October 1618) was an English statesman, soldier, writer and explorer. One of the most notable figures of the Elizabethan era, he played a leading part in English colonisation of North America, suppressed rebellion ...
built an Elizabethan mansion in the grounds of the old palace, today known as
Sherborne Castle
Sherborne Castle is a 16th-century Tudor mansion southeast of Sherborne in Dorset, England, within the parish of Castleton. It stands in a park which formed a small part of the Digby estate.
Old castle
Sherborne Old Castle () is the ruin ...
.
Sherborne became home to Yorkshireman Captain
Christopher Levett
Capt. Christopher Levett (15 April 1586 – 1630) was an English writer, explorer and naval captain, born at York, England. He explored the coast of New England and secured a grant from the King to settle present-day Portland, Maine, the first ...
, who came to the
West Country
The West Country (occasionally Westcountry) is a loosely defined area of South West England, usually taken to include all, some, or parts of the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Bristol, and, less commonly, Wiltshire, Gloucesters ...
as His Majesty's Woodward of
Somersetshire
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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, and who remained in Sherborne when he turned to a career as a naval captain and early explorer of
New England
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.
Governance
In the UK national parliament, Sherborne is within the
West Dorset parliamentary constituency. , the
Member of Parliament
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(MP)
Chris Loder of the
Conservative Party
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Political parties called The Conservative P ...
. In
local government
Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of public administration within a particular sovereign state. This particular usage of the word government refers specifically to a level of administration that is both geographically-loca ...
, Sherborne is administered by
Dorset Council at the highest tier, and Sherborne Town Council at the lowest tier.
In national parliament and local council elections, Dorset is divided into several
electoral wards
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, with Sherborne forming two of these: Sherborne West and Sherborne East. In county council elections, Dorset is divided into 42 electoral divisions, with Sherborne's two wards together forming Sherborne Electoral Division.
Education
There has been a school in Sherborne since the time of
King Alfred, who was educated there. The school was re-founded in 1550 as King Edward's grammar school, using some of the old abbey buildings, though it is now known simply as
Sherborne School
(God and My Right)
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, type = Public school Independent, boarding school
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, ...
. The school is one of the
independent school
An independent school is independent in its finances and governance. Also known as private schools, non-governmental, privately funded, or non-state schools, they are not administered by local, state or national governments. In British Eng ...
s in
Britain, with alumni such as
Alan Turing
Alan Mathison Turing (; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical com ...
,
Jeremy Irons,
Chris Martin,
John le Carré
David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 193112 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré ( ), was a British and Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. ...
,
Hugh Bonneville
Hugh Richard Bonneville Williams (born 10 November 1963) is an English actor. He is best known for portraying Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham, in the ITV historical drama series ''Downton Abbey''. His performance on the show earned him a nom ...
and
John Cowper Powys
John Cowper Powys (; 8 October 187217 June 1963) was an English philosopher, lecturer, novelist, critic and poet born in Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father was vicar of the parish church in 1871–1879. Powys appeared with a volume of verse ...
. Sherborne School operates
Sherborne International
Sherborne International (formerly the International College, Sherborne School) is an independent co-educational fully boarding school for boys and girls aged between 8 and 17-years-old. It is located in the historic town of Sherborne in Dorset i ...
, a school which seeks to integrate international students into the
British public school
In England and Wales (but not Scotland), a public school is a fee-charging endowed school originally for older boys. They are "public" in the sense of being open to pupils irrespective of locality, denomination or paternal trade or profess ...
tradition.
Sherborne School for Girls, often simply known as Sherborne Girls was founded in 1895. Its notable alumnae include the opera singer
Emma Kirkby
Dame Carolyn Emma Kirkby, (; born 26 February 1949) is an English soprano and early music specialist. She has sung on over 100 recordings.
Education and early career
Kirkby was educated at Hanford School, Sherborne School for Girls in Dors ...
and the scientist
Rosa Beddington
Rosa Susan Penelope Beddington Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (23 March 1956 – 18 May 2001) was a British biologist whose career had a major impact on developmental biology.
Education and early life
Beddington was born on 23 March 1956, the ...
.
Sherborne Preparatory School
Sherborne Preparatory School is a non-selective co-educational preparatory school in the town of Sherborne, Dorset in southern England. It is an independent preparatory school which merged with Sherborne School in April 2021. It continues to ben ...
is located opposite Sherborne School, and many of its pupils choose to go on to Sherborne School or Sherborne Girls.
Until 1992 there were also two
grammar school
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s, Foster's School for Boys and Lord Digby's School for Girls. Both schools merged with another local school to form
The Gryphon School
The Gryphon School is a Church of England secondary school with academy status for 11 to 18-year-olds in Sherborne, Dorset, England. The school has been the largest member of the Academy Trust "Sherborne Area Schools' Trust" (SAST) since June 201 ...
.
The town also has two primary schools, Sherborne Abbey Primary School and Sherborne Primary School.
Historic buildings
Notable historic buildings in the town include:
The
almshouse
An almshouse (also known as a bede-house, poorhouse, or hospital) was charitable housing provided to people in a particular community, especially during the medieval era. They were often targeted at the poor of a locality, at those from certain ...
s of
Saint
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s
John the Baptist
John the Baptist or , , or , ;Wetterau, Bruce. ''World history''. New York: Henry Holt and Company. 1994. syc, ܝܘܿܚܲܢܵܢ ܡܲܥܡܕ݂ܵܢܵܐ, Yoḥanān Maʿmḏānā; he, יוחנן המטביל, Yohanān HaMatbil; la, Ioannes Bapti ...
and
John the Evangelist: founded in 1437 and building completed in 1448. It was expanded in 1866 in indistinguishable
medieval style architecture;
The
conduit
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* Electrical conduit, a protective cover, tube or piping system for electric cables
* Conduit curre ...
: originally built in the Abbey Cloister c.1520 as the Monks' wash place, but moved to the Market Place in 1560;
Hospice
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of
St Julian: founded in c.1405;
No. 101 Newland: built 1297;
Lord Digby school, now known as
Sherborne House (designed by
Benjamin Bastard). Sherborne House, famed for its mural by
Sir James Thornhill
Sir James Thornhill (25 July 1675 or 1676 – 4 May 1734) was an English painter of historical subjects working in the Italian baroque tradition. He was responsible for some large-scale schemes of murals, including the "Painted Hall" at the Ro ...
, was a subject for the
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's ''Restoration'' programme in 2004, and was sold in 2008 by
Dorset County Council to a developer, Redcliffe Homes, for £3 million. Its renovation included rebuilding an unstable rear wall.
St Emerenciana's Chapel (now known as Nethercoombe Farm); built in the late 14th century. The only building in the country to have been dedicated to this saint.
There are 378 listed buildings within the town and 23 in Castleton (considered to be an inclusion of Sherborne), totalling 401, including 14 Grade I listed buildings and 21 Grade II* listed buildings.
Churches
The parish church, known as
Sherborne Abbey
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 has been a Saxon cathedral (705–1075), a Benedictine abbey church (998–1539), and since 1539, ...
is the most prominent building in the town.
There is a Catholic Church, Church of St Aldhelm and the Sacred Heart, on Westbury.
Cheap Street Church is a joint Methodist and United Reformed congregation.
Demographics
Notable residents
*
Mike Davis, a rugby player and coach with
England
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.
* The social reformer and moralist Rev Sir
James Marchant
Rev Sir James Marchant FRSE FLS FRAS KBE LLD (1867–1956) was a British eugenicist, social reformer and author. He was leader of the National Vigilance Association, concerned with social morality, and also the Director of the National Council o ...
died here in 1956.
* Olympic sailor
Andrew Simpson (1976–2013) lived here.
* Olympic field hockey player
Michael Walford
Michael Moore Walford (27 November 1915 – 16 January 2002), often known as "Micky Walford", was an all-round sportsman: a British field hockey player who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics, a first-class cricket player for Oxford Unive ...
lived and worked here for many years before his death in 2002.
Environment and community
![Dorset sherbone almshouses](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Dorset_sherbone_almshouses.jpg)
Sherborne has an active green community, with various environmental and sustainability organisations in the area. The Quarr Local Nature Reserve at the northern end of the town makes use of an old quarry and landfill site, Sherborne Area Partnership oversees a successful environment forum and, in 2009, Sherborne became an official
Transition Town
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,
running a number of projects and events as a community response to
climate change
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and
peak oil.
Pack Monday Fair
The town has for centuries hosted an annual street fair,
Pack Monday Fair
Pack Monday Fair is an annual street fair held in the country town of Sherborne in Dorset, starting on the Monday following 10 October (Old Michaelmas Day). Originally an agricultural fair, it is now devoted to stalls, sideshows and a funfair.
O ...
, starting on the Monday following 10 October (
Old Michaelmas Day
Michaelmas ( ; also known as the Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, the Feast of the Archangels, or the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels) is a Christian festival observed in some Western liturgical calendars on 29 September, ...
). Originally an agricultural fair, it is now devoted to stalls, sideshows and a funfair.
Sport and leisure
Sherborne has a
non-League football
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club
Sherborne Town FC
Sherborne Town Football Club are a football club based in the town of Sherborne, Dorset, England. They are currently members of the and play at Raleigh Grove. The club is affiliated to the Dorset County Football Association and is a FA chartere ...
, a cricket club (Sherborne CC), and a rugby club,
Sherborne RFC
Sherborne Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club in Dorset in the south west of England. The club was established in 1980. It has a membership of 100 senior players and a further 300 boys and girls in the junior section. The club runs two ...
.
International relations
Sherborne is a founding member of the
Douzelage
The Douzelage is a town twinning association with one town from each of the member states of the European Union.
The name is a portmanteau of the French words "douze" for twelve and "jumelage" for twinning and stands for the twelve founder member ...
, a
town twinning
A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.
While there are early examples of inter ...
association of 24 towns across the
European Union
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. This active town twinning began in 1991 and there are regular events, such as a produce market from each of the other countries and festivals.
Discussions regarding membership are also in hand with three further towns (
Agros in Cyprus,
Škofja Loka
Škofja Loka (; german: Bischoflack) is a town in Slovenia. It is the economic, cultural, educational, and administrative center of the Municipality of Škofja Loka in Upper Carniola. It has about 12,000 inhabitants.
Geography
Škofja Loka lies a ...
in Slovenia, and
Tryavna in Bulgaria).
Sherbourne Street, Toronto and
Sherbourne (TTC)
Sherbourne is a subway station on the Bloor–Danforth line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The station, which opened in 1966, is located west of Sherbourne Street on the south side of Bloor Street East. The station primarily serves the St. Jam ...
subway station was named after the town, as it was the birthplace of
Upper Canada
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official and Toronto resident
Thomas Ridout.
See also
*
Sherborne Hundred
Sherborne Hundred was a hundred in the county of Dorset, England, containing the following parishes:
See also
*List of hundreds in Dorset
This is a list of hundreds in the county of Dorset, England. Between the Anglo-Saxon period and the Loc ...
for more on the history of the hundred
Sources and references
General sources
* Pitt-Rivers, Michael, 1968. ''Dorset''. London: Faber & Faber.
* ''The 1985 AA illustrated guide to the towns and villages of Britain''.
Citations
External links
Town web site*
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Market towns in Dorset
Towns in Dorset