{"id":2093,"date":"2012-04-06T14:26:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T14:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2093"},"modified":"2018-05-26T22:15:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T22:15:57","slug":"sherborne-dorset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/04\/06\/sherborne-dorset\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherborne Dorset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sherborne Dorset &#8211; Sherborne is a small town in the county of Dorset in southern England, located on the River Yeo, 6 kilometres from the town of Yeovil (Somerset). <a title=\"Sherborne Map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/sherborne-map.html\">Sherborne<\/a> had 9,350 inhabitants in 2001, it is in the District of West Dorset and has a variety of historic buildings and schools, the best known of which is Sherborne School. The town takes its name from scir burne (Old English) as &#8220;a clear river source&#8221;. Origins of the town date back to the 7th Century, Sherborne was an important town and religious centre of Wessex, one of the seven kingdoms of England. Saxonian King Alfred&#8217;s older brothers Athelbald of Wessex and Athelberht of Wessex are buried in the abbey\u00a0 (Sherborne Abbey). Sherborne is located close to Dorset&#8217;s border with Somerset, to the east of Yeovil and to the north of Dorchester. Sherborne is the 9th largest town in <a title=\"Dorset Weather\" href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/dorset-weather.html\">Dorset<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See a map of Dorset here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/dorset-map.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/dorset-map.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sherborne Dorset &#8211; Sherborne is a small town in the county of Dorset in southern England, located on the River Yeo, 6 kilometres from the town of Yeovil (Somerset). Sherborne had 9,350 inhabitants in 2001, it is in the District of West Dorset and has a variety of historic buildings and schools, the best known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6,3],"tags":[597,547,1006,1008,1007],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3107,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions\/3107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}