References in Literature and Popular Culture
- Sherborne features in Thomas Hardy's Wessex as "Sherton Abbas".
- The film musical Goodbye, Mr. Chips was filmed in Sherborne.
- The film The Guinea Pig was partly filmed in Sherborne.
- The film The Browning Version was partly filmed at Sherborne School.
- John le Carré's novel A Murder of Quality takes place largely in a fictionalised version of Sherborne: Carne. The house in which the first murder is committed is Hyle House, in the south west of the town.
- The novelist John Cowper Powys's novel Wolf Solent is set in and around Sherborne, and Powys attended Sherborne School from 1886 to 1891.
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