Dorset
Dorset is a county on the south coast of England, in the West Country. Most of the county is agricultural with scattered historic villages and market towns with the Bournemouth-Poole-Christchurch conurbation in the county's south-eastern corner.Photo: Skez, CC BY-SA 2.5.
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Bournemouth
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Bournemouth is a seaside resort town in the county of Dorset on the south coast of England.
Poole
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Poole is a coastal town and seaport on the south coast of England in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority area in Dorset, England.
Dorchester
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Dorchester is the county town of Dorset. A market town with an undoubtedly long history, Dorchester…
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Weymouth
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Weymouth is a town in Dorset, a county on the south coast of the West Country, in England.
Christchurch
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Christchurch is a town in Dorset, famed for its millennium-old priory, from which the town derives its name.
Isle of Portland
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Portland is a town in Dorset, a county on the south coast of the West Country, in England.
Lyme Regis
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Lyme Regis is a town in west Dorset, England, 25 miles west of Dorchester and east of Exeter.
Sherborne
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Sherborne is a small town in England. A market town and civil parish in northwest Dorset, it's sited on the River Yeo on the edge of the Blackmore Vale.
Wareham
Wareham is a town in Dorset, UK. Wareham QuayWareham's new bridge over the River FromeLady St Mary church's rather unique hexagonal fontClouds Hill, the cottage belonging to Laurence of ArabiaThe 700 year old St Martin’s-on–the-Wall church…Shaftesbury
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Shaftesbury is a historic hill top town of 9,200 people in northern Dorset, southern England.
Gillingham
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Gillingham is the most northerly town in Dorset on the edge of the Blackmore Vale.
Blandford Forum
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Blandford Forum is a market town in Dorset, England, by the River Stour 13 miles northwest of Poole.
Bridport
Bridport is a market town in Dorset, England, 2 miles inland from the English Channel near the confluence of the River Brit and its tributary the Asker.Wimborne Minster
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Wimborne Minster, also called just Wimborne, is a town of 16,000 people at the confluence of the River Stour and the River Allen, on the Dorset Heaths in Dorset, England.
Corfe Castle
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Corfe Castle is a village in Dorset and the site of a ruined castle of the same name.
Abbotsbury
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Abbotsbury is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset.
Charmouth
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Charmouth is a seaside village in situated in south-west Dorset in the West Country of England.
West Bay
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West Bay is a small harbour village in Dorset, England, approximately 2 miles south of the centre of Bridport.
Dorset
- Type: Region with 770,000 residents
- Description: ceremonial county in South West England, UK
- Neighbors: Devon, Hampshire, Somerset and Wiltshire
- Category: ceremonial county of England
- Location: West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude of centre
50.8025° or 50° 48' 9" northLongitude of centre
-2.3045° or 2° 18' 16" westPopulation
770,000Elevation
148 metres (486 feet)GeoNames ID
11609032Wikidata ID
Q23159Dorset Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Dorset
- Arabic: Dorset
- Arabic: دورست
- Aragonese: Dorset
- Armenian: Դորսետ
- Asturian: Dorset
- Azerbaijani: Dorset
- Azerbaijani: Dorsetşir
- Balinese: Dorset
- Basque: Dorset
- Belarusian: Дорсет
- Belarusian: Дорсэт
- Bengali: ডরসেট
- Breton: Dorset
- Bulgarian: Дорсет
- Catalan: Dorset
- Cebuano: Dorset
- Chinese: Dorset
- Chinese: 多塞特郡
- Chinese: 多實郡
- Cornish: Dorset
- Czech: Dorset
- Danish: Dorset
- Dutch: Dorset
- English: Ceremonial County Dorset
- English: Dorsetshire
- Esperanto: Dorset
- Estonian: Dorset
- Finnish: Dorset
- French: Dorset
- Galician: Dorset
- Georgian: დორსეტი
- German: Dorset
- Gothic: 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽𐍃𐌰𐍄𐍃
- Greek: Ντόρσετ
- Gujarati: ડોરસેટ
- Hakka Chinese: Dorset
- Hausa: Dorset
- Hebrew: דורסט
- Hindi: डॉर्सेट
- Hungarian: Dorset
- Icelandic: Dorset
- Ido: Dorset
- Indonesian: Dorset
- Interlingua: Dorset
- Irish: Dorset
- Italian: Dorset
- Japanese: ドーセット
- Kannada: ಡಾರ್ಸೆಟ್
- Korean: 도싯주
- Kurdish: Dorset
- Ladin: Dorset
- Latin: Dorcestria
- Latvian: Dorseta
- Lithuanian: Dorsetas
- Low German: Dorset
- Luxembourgish: Grofschaft Dorset
- Macedonian: Дорсет
- Malayalam: ഡോർസെറ്റ്
- Manipuri: ꯗꯣꯔꯁꯦꯠ
- Manx: Dorset
- Marathi: डॉर्सेट
- Min Nan Chinese: Dorset
- Mirandese: Dorset
- Northern Frisian: Dorset
- Norwegian: Dorset
- Norwegian Bokmål: Dorset
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Dorset
- Occitan (post 1500): Dorset
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Dorsæte
- Ossetian: Дорсет
- Persian: دورست (انگلستان)
- Persian: دورست
- Polish: Dorset
- Portuguese: Dorset
- Quechua: Dorset
- Romanian: Dorset
- Russian: Дорсет
- Scots: Dorset
- Serbian: Дорсет
- Serbo-Croatian: Dorset
- Sicilian: Dorset
- Slovak: Dorset
- Slovenian: Dorset
- Spanish: Dorset
- Swedish: Dorset
- Swedish: Dorsetshire
- Tajik: Дорсет
- Tamil: டோர்செட்
- Tatar: Дорсет
- Telugu: డోర్ సెట్
- Thai: ดอร์เซต
- Tornedalen Finnish: Dorset
- Tornedalen Finnish: Dorsetshire
- Turkish: Dorset
- Turkish: Törensel Dorset Kontluğu
- Ukrainian: Дорсет
- Urdu: ڈورسٹ
- Vietnamese: Dorset
- Volapük: Dorset
- Waray (Philippines): Dorset
- Welsh: Dorset
- Western Frisian: Dorset
- Western Panjabi: ڈورسٹ
- Wu Chinese: 多塞特郡
- Yiddish: דארסעט
- Yue Chinese: 多實郡
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