{{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 (district)|Dorset]] |lieutenancy_england = [[Dorset]] |country = England |region = South West England |population = 30 |population_ref = <ref name=dcc>{{cite web|url=https://www.dorsetforyou.com/344882|title=Parish Population Data|date=20 January 2015|accessdate=27 February 2015|publisher=Dorset County Council|archive-date=21 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121135528/https://www.dorsetforyou.com/344882|url-status=dead}}</ref> |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 (constituency)|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 parishes in England|civil parish]] in the [[English county|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).<ref name=dcc/>
The village's [[Tudor architecture|Tudor]]-style manor house was built in 1887 and the [[Blue Lias]]-built [[St Mary's Church, Catherston Leweston|church]] dates from 1858.<ref>{{cite book|title=Dorset Villages|author=Roland Gant|pages=118–9|publisher=Robert Hale Ltd|year=1980|isbn=0 7091 8135 3}}</ref> 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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[[Category:Villages in Dorset]]