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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External links
- [http://www.goldencapteamofchurches.org.uk/catherston.html Parish Church of St Mary]
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