Official Name: | Catherston Leweston |
Unitary England: | Dorset |
Shire County: | Dorset |
Country: | England |
Region: | South West England |
Population: | 30 |
Population Ref: | [1] |
Map Type: | Dorset |
Coordinates: | 50.746°N -2.8947°W |
Post Town: | BRIDPORT |
Postcode Area: | DT |
Postcode District: | DT6 |
Dial Code: | 01297 |
Constituency Westminster: | West Dorset |
Static Image Name: | Catherston Leweston, manor and church from A35 bridge - geograph.org.uk - 502854.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Catherston Leweston viewed from the south |
Catherston Leweston is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England. It lies approximately 2miles northeast of Lyme Regis. The Dorset County Council estimated that the population of the parish was 30(as of 2013).[1]
The village's Tudor-style manor house was built in 1887 and the Blue Lias-built church dates from 1858.[2] Part of an earlier medieval manor house belonging to the Wadham family of Catherston, a cadet branch of the family that founded Wadham College, Oxford, remains beside the later house.