Sherborne School, Sherborne

Name: Sherborne School
Address: Sherborne, United Kingdom

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Sherborne School is a public school located beside Sherborne Abbey, in the parish of Sherborne, Dorset. The school has been in continuous operation on the same site for over 1,300 years. It was founded in 705 AD by St Aldhelm and, following the dissolution of the monasteries, re-founded in 1550 by King Edward VI, making it one of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom. Sherborne is one of the twelve founding member public schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference in 1869 and is a member of the Eton Group and Boarding Schools Association. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 50°56'49"N, 2°31'5"W

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Sherborne United Kingdom

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Nearby attractions include: Sherborne Abbey, Sherborne Old Castle, Sherborne Museum, Sherborne Library.

~340 ftE
Architecture, Sacred and religious sites, Historical place
Sherborne Abbey, Sherborne
2 min walk • 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, a Benedictine abbey church, and since 1539, a parish church.
0.7 miE
Historical place, Forts and castles, Vernacular architecture
Sherborne Old Castle, Sherborne
18 min walk • Sherborne Castle is a 16th-century Tudor mansion southeast of Sherborne in Dorset, England, within the parish of Castleton. It stands in a 1,200-acre park which formed a small part of the 15,000-acre Digby estate.
~540 ftE
Specialty museum, Museum
Sherborne Museum, Sherborne
3 min walk • Sherborne Museum is an independent local museum centrally situated in Sherborne, a small market town in north-west Dorset. Formerly a Saxon burgh, Sherborne evolved through the cloth, gloving and silk industries and is embedded in varied countryside united by scarps of Jurassic limestone.
~1240 ftNE
Library, Baroque architecture
Sherborne Library, Sherborne
6 min walk • Sherborne House is a Grade I listed building. in Newland, Sherborne, Dorset, England.

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Nearby attractions include Sherborne Abbey, Sherborne (2 min walk), Sherborne Museum, Sherborne (3 min walk), Sherborne Library, Sherborne (6 min walk), Sherborne Old Castle, Sherborne (18 min walk).