Sherborne.
A surname.
Meaning & usage
A surname.
A market town and civil parish with a town council in northwestern Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST6316).
A village and civil parish with a brook of the same name in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SP1714).
A hamlet in Litton parish, Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST5855).
Where this word comes from
From Old English Sċīraburna, equivalent to scīr (“bright, clear”) + burna (“stream”).
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