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Sherborne Abbey

Sherborne

(0.5 miles, 0.8 km)

The softly glowing Ham stone of which most of the town properties are built, lends warmth and atmosphere to what is already a unique and attractive place...

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Poyntington, Dorset

Poyntington

(2.3 miles, 3.7 km, direction N)

This is a delightful small village situated in the picturesque Blackmore Vale where the Dorset and Somerset boundary meets...

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Hardy's Dorset

Melbury Osmond

(6.9 miles, 11.2 km, direction SW)

A long, winding lane, flanked by grassy banks covered in fern and wild flowers, leads to the picture postcard village of Melbury Osmond..

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Minterne House and Gardens

Minterne Magna

(7.6 miles, 12.2 km, direction S)

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Hardy's Dorset

Evershot

(8.7 miles, 14.0 km, direction SW)

Evershot is a pretty village and is considered to be the heart of Thomas Hardy's Wessex, famous for its inclusion in much of his famous literature such as the novel 'Tess of the.....

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Sturminster Newton in Dorset

Sturminster Newton

(8.8 miles, 14.2 km, direction E)

A small attractive Market Town in Dorset...

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Cerne Abbas

Cerne Abbas

(9.6 miles, 15.5 km, direction S)

Famous for its huge chalk 'rude' giant, Cerne Abbas is a lovely ancient village in Dorset...

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Stour Valley Autumn

Fiddleford

(10.0 miles, 16.1 km, direction E)

Fiddleford is a picturesque village in Dorset...

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Blackmore Vale, North Dorset.

Okeford Fitzpaine

(10.4 miles, 16.7 km, direction E)

A pretty village set in the Blackmore Vale in the heart of North Dorset, just 3 miles south of the market town of Sturminster Newton. Within the parish are 61 structures that.....

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The Sydling Valley, Dorset

Sydling St Nicholas

(10.7 miles, 17.2 km, direction S)

This is a particularly scenic village lying deep in a chalk-stream valley between open downs. Every approach to it is beautiful, whether crossing the hills from Cerne Abbas or Maiden Newton, or coming up the waters of the River Cerne between meadows flooded with spring lambs and ponies...

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Recommended attractions near Sherborne Castle

Sherborne Abbey at night

Sherborne Abbey

(0.4 miles, 0.7 km)

Without doubt this magnificent Abbey built centuries ago of creamy Ham stone ranks amongst the finest Abbey churches anywhere in.....

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Yeovil Country Park

(5.7 miles, 9.2 km, direction W)

This wonderful Green Flag winning park is made up of 4 individual greenspaces which are linked by the cycleway which follows the.....

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Fleet Air Arm Museum, Somerset

Fleet Air Arm Museum

(7.5 miles, 12.1 km, direction NW)

The Fleet Air Arm Museum houses Europe's largest Naval aviation collection. Go on-board Concorde and be transported by a.....

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Brympton d'Evercy

(7.9 miles, 12.7 km, direction W)

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Montacute House

Montacute House

(9.1 miles, 14.7 km, direction W)

This is one of the most glittering of all the great Elizabethan mansions in England. It is built of glowing honey-coloured Ham.....

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Cerne Giant in Cerne Abbas, Dorset.

Cerne Abbas Giant

(9.1 miles, 14.7 km, direction S)

This magnificent figure cut into the turf of a chalk hillside is best viewed from the north of the village. He is known as "The.....

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Tintinhull, Spring 08

Tintinhull Garden

(9.3 miles, 15.0 km, direction W)

Delightful formal garden. Particularly fine azalea garden, fountain garden and kitchen garden...

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Lytes Cary Manor, June 2009

Lytes Cary Manor

(9.7 miles, 15.6 km, direction NW)

Intimate manor house with Arts & Crafts-style garden. Tudor great hall and 14th-century chapel, this was home to medieval.....

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Time Stone

Ham Hill Country Park

(10.6 miles, 17.1 km, direction W)

Offering stunning views of the Mendip Hills, the Quantock Hills, and the Dorset Downs, Ham Hill Country Park is a well-known.....

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Stoke sub Hamdon history board

Stoke-sub-Hamdon Priory

(11.1 miles, 17.9 km, direction W)

14th/15th-century farm buildings, formerly a priests' residence...

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