Catherston Leweston is a small village and
civil parish
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in the
county
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of
Dorset
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in southwest
England
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. It lies approximately northeast of
Lyme Regis
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. The
Dorset County Council
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estimated that the population of the parish was 30(as of 2013).
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The village's Tudor-style manor house was built in 1887 and the ]Blue Lias
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-built church
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dates from 1858.manor house
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belonging to the Wadham family of Catherston, a cadet
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branch of the family that founded Wadham College, Oxford
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, remains beside the later house.
References
External links
Parish Church of St Mary
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Villages in Dorset