Sherborne
Sherborne is a market town and civil parish in north-west Dorset, England.
Sherborne is a market town and civil parish in north-west Dorset, England. It is sited on the River Yeo, on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Yeovil. The parish includes the hamlets of Nether Coombe and Lower Clatcombe. The A30 road, which connects London with Penzance, runs through the town. In the 2021 census the population of Sherborne was 10,361.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Sherborne Abbey
- 02The Conduit
Church Lane.
- 03Sherborne Old Castle
- 04Sherborne New Castle
- 05Sherborne Museum
Abbey Gatehouse, Church Ln, DT9 3BP,.
- 06Fleet Air Arm Museum
RNAS Yeovilton, Ilchester, BA22 8HT, enquiries@nmrn.org.uk.
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Things to do
Pack Monday Fair. Annual street fair starting on the Monday following 10 October.
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Where to eat
Whether you prefer some heart-warming pub grub, elegant high teas, fine cuisine or simply a family-friendly dining experience, you can be sure that Sherborne will offer you many delicious local specialities to tempt your taste-buds! Contact Sherborne Tourist Information Centre for some expert advice.
- 01The Green
3 The Green, DT9 3HY, info@greenrestaurant.co.uk.
- 02Chetnole Inn
Country pub with simple rooms, it's the food that gets the great reviews.
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Getting to Sherborne
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 50 km · Cardiff (CWL), 76 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 155 km
- Bristol → Sherborne57 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £7–10
- Cardiff → Sherborne75 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £14–18
- London → Sherborne178 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · £18–24
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Sherborne
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Sherborne. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 0190 km
- 02153 km
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- 05573 km
If you know how people move in Sherborne – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Sherborne
Sherborne is 57 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.