Sherborne, Gloucestershire

This article is about the village in Gloucestershire. For the Dorset town, see Sherborne.

Sherborne
Sherborne is located in Gloucestershire
Sherborne
Sherborne
Location within Gloucestershire
Population309 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceSP1614
Civil parish
  • Sherborne
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCheltenham
Postcode districtGL54
Dialling code01451
PoliceGloucestershire
FireGloucestershire
AmbulanceSouth Western
List of places
UK
England
Gloucestershire
51°49′44″N 1°44′38″W / 51.829°N 1.744°W / 51.829; -1.744

Sherborne is a village and civil parish almost 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east of Northleach in Gloucestershire. Sherborne is a linear village, extending more than a mile along the valley of Sherborne Brook, a tributary of the River Windrush.

The place-name 'Sherborne' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it is spelt 'Scireburne', and means 'bright stream'.[2] This is a reference to Sherborne Brook.

  1. ^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  2. ^ Eilert Ekwall, Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.416.