English Heritage sites near Corscombe Parish
WINTERBOURNE POOR LOT BARROWS
10 miles from Corscombe Parish
A 'cemetery' of 44 Bronze Age burial mounds of varying types and sizes, straddling the A35 main road.
THE NINE STONES
10 miles from Corscombe Parish
Now in a wooded glade, this small prehistoric circle of nine standing stones was constructed around 4,000 years ago and is surrounded by a mysterious air. Winterbourne Poor Lot Barrows are nearby.
SHERBORNE OLD CASTLE
11 miles from Corscombe Parish
Built on a grand scale in the 12th century by the Bishop of Salisbury, Sherborne was coveted by churchmen and noblemen alike giving it a long, chequered history. Picnic, shop, light refreshments.
KINGSTON RUSSELL STONE CIRCLE
11 miles from Corscombe Parish
A late Neolithic or early Bronze Age circle of 18 fallen stones, on a hilltop overlooking Abbotsbury and the sea.
ABBOTSBURY ABBEY REMAINS
13 miles from Corscombe Parish
Part of a monastic building, perhaps the abbot’s lodging, of Benedictine Abbotsbury Abbey, Henry VIII ordered its destruction during the Dissolution in 1538. St Catherine's Chapel is nearby.
ABBOTSBURY, ST CATHERINE'S CHAPEL
13 miles from Corscombe Parish
Set high on a hilltop overlooking Abbotsbury Abbey, this sturdily buttressed and barrel-vaulted 14th-century chapel was built by monks as a place of pilgrimage and retreat.