Trent is a village and civil parish in northwest Dorset, England, situated in the Yeo valley northwest of Sherborne and four miles northeast of Yeovil. It was in Somerset until 1896. In the 2011 census the parish—which includes the hamlets of Adber and Hummer to the north—had a population of 317.

Charles II of England stayed at Trent House for several days during his escape to France in 1651.

The Trent Estate is owned by the Ernest Cook Trust, purchased by Ernest Cook in 1935 as the first of a number of English estates he purchased for their protection. The village has good architecture from the Medieval, Tudor, and later periods, with many trees in the background.Geoffrey Fisher, former Archbishop of Canterbury, lived at Trent when he served in his retirement from episcopacy as an honorary assisting curate until his death in 1972 and is also buried at Trent. The actresses Kristin Scott Thomas and Serena Scott Thomas spent their childhoods in Trent.

References

  • The Trent Estate and the Ernest Cook Trust