Goathill

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St. Peter's Church
Goathill Lodge

Goathill is a town and at the same time a rural parish ( Civil Parish ) in the Unitary Authority Dorset in England , about four kilometers east of Sherborne . The agricultural hamlet comprises eight residential houses, some of which are grouped around the small parish church and some around a road branching south of it. Goathill has fourteen inhabitants as of 2014, the size of the district is 120 hectares . Neighboring, starting to the north and going clockwise, are the parishes of Milborne Port, Purse Caundle, Haydon and Castleton. To the east, Goathill borders Somerset County , which it belonged to until 1896.

Due to the small number of residents, Goathill does not have its own Parish Council, but forms an administrative community called Yeohead and Castleton together with the neighboring Castleton and Oborne and Poyntington to the west .

The church of St. Peter, originally from the 13th century , but fundamentally remodeled at the beginning of the 19th century , as well as a southern, secluded house on the edge of Sherborne Park, the Goathill Lodge, from the second half of the 19th century are historically significant . Century. Both are classified as Category II listed buildings .

In the north-west of Goathill, in a small former quarry, the Goathill Quarry, there is a geologically significant outcrop in which fossil-rich limestone from the Bathonian is located. It is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest and is under nature protection.

literature

  • Her Majesty's Stationery Office: An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 1, West, London 1952, p. 119. Digitized on the British History Online website. (English)

Web links

Commons : Goathill  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Parish Church of St Peter and Goathill Lodge in the Listed Property Database on Historic England website , accessed November 27, 2017. (English)
  2. ↑ Basic information on the SSSI Goathill Quarry on the Natural England website , PDF file, 45 kB, accessed on November 27, 2017. (English)

Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′  N , 2 ° 28 ′  W