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Museum entrance
Silk glove display
Detail of Medieval wall painting

Sherborne Museum is an independent local museum centrally situated in Sherborne, a small market town in north-west Dorset. Formerly a Saxon burgh, Sherborne evolved through the cloth, gloving and silk industries and is embedded in varied countryside united by scarps of Jurassic limestone.

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by her sister, Noel Streatfeild. She was also a founding member of Sherborne Museum, Dorset. Geoffrey Streatfeild (1975-), actor in film, television, stage...

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28 August 2017. "Art in the Museum - Ruth Gervis -- A Portrait Of The Artist Ruth Gervis: Founder Member". Sherborne Museum. Archived from the original...

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Edward Bamford

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secretary to the Yeatman Hospital, Sherborne, and died at Sherborne on 9 November 1898, aged 44, and was buried in Sherborne Cemetery. After the Rev. Bamford's...

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of the reign of Caedwalla in 685. The Saxons established a diocese at Sherborne and Dorset was made a shire—an administrative district of Wessex and predecessor...

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John Le Mesurier

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He was sent to school, first to Grenham House in Kent, and later to Sherborne School in Dorset, where one of his fellow pupils was the mathematician...

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James Bradley

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greatest astronomers of all ages and all countries." Bradley was born at Sherborne, near Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, to William Bradley and Jane Pound...

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History of wood carving

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very high order, we have conspicuous exceptions in the stall elbows of Sherborne, and the pulpit of Trull, Somerset. Perhaps the oldest instance is the...

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Charles Tate Regan

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Born in Sherborne, Dorset, he was educated at Derby School and Queens' College, Cambridge and in 1901 joined the staff of the Natural History Museum, where...

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John Grayburn

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British and Commonwealth forces. Born in 1918, Grayburn was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset and joined the Army Cadet Force before the outbreak of...

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population of 4,712, estimated at 4,805 in 2019. In Saxon times, the abbots of Sherborne Abbey had salt-boiling rights on land adjacent to the River Lym, and the...

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