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Sherborne Castle

📍 Dorset, England

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About

Sherborne Castle is a 16th-century Tudor mansion southeast of Sherborne in Dorset, England, within the parish of Castleton. Originally built by Sir Walter Raleigh as Sherborne Lodge, and extended in the 1620s, it stands in a 1,200-acre (490 ha) park which formed a small part of the 15,000-acre (61 km2) Digby estate. Within the grounds lie the ruins of the 12th-century Sherborne Old Castle, now in the care of English Heritage.

Built in 1594 by Sir Walter Raleigh as Sherborne Lodge, after he decided the adjacent Old Castle was too ruined to restore. Extended in the 1620s by the Digby family, who still own it today. Set in 1,200 acres of parkland with a lake created by Capability Brown. Houses nationally important collections of furniture, paintings, and porcelain spanning 400 years.