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Seaborough is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England. It is sited in the valley of the River Axe and lies approximately Template:Convert south of Crewkerne in Somerset. The parish was historically in Somerset, part of the hundred of Crewkerne,<ref name=genuki>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> but was transferred to Dorset in 1896.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=opc>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2013 the estimated population of the civil parish was 60.<ref name=estimate/>
The village church is small and mostly not of ancient construction. Ralph Wightman, broadcaster, agriculturist and a native of Dorset, described it as "delightful", and claimed that the round arch of the porch was so low it "would remove the hat of any man of average height."<ref name=Wightman>Template:Cite book</ref>
Seaborough lies on the northern side of the Axe valley, beneath the Template:Convert Seaborough Hill. The minor lane which passes through the village and up the hill is noted for being particularly steep.<ref name=opc/> At the bottom of the village the river is crossed by a small stone bridge, close to which is an old ducking pool, into which scolding wives would historically have been dipped in an attempt to 'cure' them of their condition.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
In March 2013 a fire at the Template:Convert piggery at Seaborough Manor destroyed the building and killed about nine hundred pigs. Fifty firefighters took about three hours to tackle the blaze.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>