Place:Goathill, Dorset, England

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NameGoathill
Alt namesGoathillsource: from redirect
Gatelmesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 94
TypeAncient parish, Civil parish
Coordinates50.953°N 2.462°W
Located inDorset, England
Also located inSomerset, England     ( - 1896)
See alsoHorethorne Hundred, Somerset, Englandhundred in which it was located
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Goathill is a civil parish and a village of the same name in the county of Dorset, England, situated in northern part of the county, a couple of miles east of the town of Sherborne. It lies very close to the county boundary however, and for much of its history (until 1896) lay instead within the neighbouring county of Somerset, and has been described as being "just in Dorset by a nanny-goat's whisker". It remains part of the diocese of Bath and Wells.

Goathill, together with the three village parishes of Poyntington, Castleton and Oborne, form a group of parishes that share a grouped parish council called Yeohead & Castleton Parish Council.

The parish was part of the hundred of Horethorne.

St Peter's church and a mill are the major buildings of the village. Nearby is Goathill Quarry a place a special scientific interest to geologists as it allows the Fullers Earth layers to be established in relation to the limestone. Dorset County Council estimated in 2013 that Goathill parish had a population of 10.

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