Goathill is a hamlet in the county of Dorset in England. It is situated a couple of miles east of the town of Sherborne in the West Dorset administrative district of the county. It lies very close to the county boundary however, and for much of its history lay instead within the neighbouring county of Somerset, hence in 1980 author and literary director Roland Gant described Goathill as being "just in Dorset by a nanny-goat's whisker".[1] The village had a small population in 2001.[2]
The parish was part of the hundred of Horethorne.[3]
Goathill is in the group parish of Yeo Head together with the three village parishes of Poyntington, Castleton and Oborne. This parish is just south of Sherborne.[4] St Peters church and a mill are the major buildings. Nearby is Goathill Quarry a place a special scientific interest to geologists as it allows the Fullers Earth layers to be established in relation to the limestone.[5]
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