Sherborne is an moneyed market town in north west Dorset, England, situated on the River Yeo and A30 road, on the edge of the Blackmore Vale six miles east of Yeovil. the town has a people of 9,350 (As of 2001), 40.8% come retired. A town is far-famed for its history, including its abbey, castles, manor house and private school. A picturesque town occurs as popular, though comparatively unknown, tourist town.

Very much of the town, including numbers of medieval and Georgian buildings, are built from either distinctive ochre ham stone, including the Abbey.

History
A town was known as scir burne per Saxon inhabitants, a title meaning "clear stream" (view: Bourne).

A town was manufactured a capital of Wessex, one of the heptad saxon kingdoms of Engl&, and King Alfred's elder brothers King Ethelbert and King Ethelbald are burried in the abbey. Within 705 the diocese was split between Sherborne and Winchester, and King Ine founded an Abbey for St Aldhelm, the first bishop of Sherborne. A Bishop's seat was moved to Old Sarum in 1075 and the church at Sherborne became the Benedictine Monastery. In the 15th century a church was deliberately burnt down during tensions between a town & the monastery, & was rebuilt between 1425 and 1504, though some of the Norman structure remains. Inside 1539 the monastery was bought by Sir John Horsey and became a conventional church. In the 12th century Roger de Caen, Bishop of Salisbury and Chancellor of England built the fortified palace within Sherborne. A palace was destroyed around 1645 by General Fairfax, and a ruins come owned by English Heritage.

Inside 1594 Sir Walter Raleigh built an Elizabethan mansion in the grounds of the old palace, now called Sherborne Castle.

There has been a school around Sherborne since the instance of King Alfred, who was enlightened there. A school was refounded within 1550 as King Edward's public school, using some of the old abbey buildings. A school remains one of a top fee-paying schools around Britain. Until 1992 the school also helped rerun ii Grammar Schools, Foster's School for boys & Lord Digby's School for girls.

More luminary historical buildings in a town include the Almshouses of Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, founded within their current form in 1438 and expanded in the Victorian Era in indistinguishable medieval style architecture. A conduit, Hospice of St Julian, and Lord Digby's school are too swell preserved old buildings in the town.

Trivia
Sherborne features around Thomas Hardy's Wessex as "Sherton Abbas". A film musical theater Goodbye Mr Chips was set around Sherborne.