Sherborne Hundred
Sherborne Hundred is a hundred in Dorset, situated in the north-west of the county, adjacent to the border with Somerset. It is bounded by Brownshall to the east; by Buckland and Sturminster Newton Castle to the south-east; by Cerne, Totcombe and Modbury to the south; by Yestminster to the south-west; and by Somerset to the west. It had a population of 14,344 in 2011.
It contains the following ancient parishes:
- Beer Hackett
- Bishop's Caundle
- Bradford Abbas
- Castleton
- Caundle Marsh
- Folke with Allweston and Batterwick
- Haydon
- Holnest
- Leweston (ex. par.)
- Lillington
- Longburton
- Lydlinch
- Nether Compton
- North Wootton
- Oborne
- Over Compton
- Purse Caundle
- Sherborne
- Thornford
- Up Cerne
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Badbury • Barrow • Beaminster and Redhone (including Bridport) • Bere Regis • Brownshall • Buckland and Sturminster Newton Castle • Cerne, Totcombe and Modbury • Cogdean (including Poole) • Coomb's Ditch • Corfe Castle • Cranborne • Culliford Tree • Eggerton • George • Gillingham Liberty • Godderthorne • Hasilor • Knowlton • Loosebarrow • Pimperne (including Blandford Forum) • Puddletown (including Weymouth) • Redlane • Rowbarrow • Rushmoor • Sherborne • Sixpenny Handley (including Shaftesbury) • Tollerford • Uggscombe (including Dorchester) • Upwimborne • Whitchurch Canonicorum (including Lyme Regis) • Whiteway • Winfrith (including Wareham) • Yetminster |
