What is "sherborne"

Sherborne is a market town and civil parish in north west Dorset, in South West England. It is sited on the River Yeo, on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, east of Yeovil. The A30 road, which connects London to Penzance, runs through the town. In the 2011 census the population of Sherborne parish and the two electoral wards was 9,523. 28.7% of the population is aged 65 or older.

Sherborne's historic buildings include Sherborne Abbey, its manor house, independent schools, and two castles: the ruins of a 12th-century fortified palace and the 16th-century mansion known as Sherborne Castle built by Sir Walter Raleigh. Much of the old town, including the abbey and many medieval and Georgian buildings, is built from distinctive ochre-coloured ham stone.

The town is served by Sherborne railway station.

Sherborne is a town in Dorset, England.

Sherborne may also refer to

• Sherborne, Gloucestershire, England
• Sherborne St John, Hampshire, England
• Sherborne, Somerset, England

• Andrew Sherborne (b.1961), English golfer
• Robert Sherborne (d.1536), English bishop
• Baron Sherborne, an extinct title in the British peerage

• Sherborne School, Dorset, England
• Sherborne Sensors, a British manufacturer of precision measurement tools
• HMS Sherborne (1763), a British naval ship