Catherston Leweston

{{Short description|Village in Dorset, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}

{{Infobox UK place

|official_name = Catherston Leweston

|unitary_england = Dorset

|lieutenancy_england = Dorset

|country = England

|region = South West England

|population = 30

|population_ref = {{cite web|url=https://www.dorsetforyou.com/344882|title=Parish Population Data|date=20 January 2015|accessdate=27 February 2015|publisher=Dorset County Council}}

|os_grid_reference =

|map_type = Dorset

|coordinates = {{coord|50.746|-2.8947|display=inline,title}}

|london_distance =

|post_town = BRIDPORT

|postcode_area = DT

|postcode_district = DT6

|dial_code = 01297

|constituency_westminster = West Dorset

|website =

|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 {{convert|2|mi|km}} northeast of Lyme Regis. The Dorset County Council estimated that the population of the parish was 30(as of 2013).

The village's Tudor-style manor house was built in 1887 and the Blue Lias-built church dates from 1858.{{cite book|title=Dorset Villages|author=Roland Gant|pages=118–9|publisher=Robert Hale Ltd|year=1980|isbn=0 7091 8135 3}} 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.{{Citation needed|date=January 2016}}

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