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    Dorchester (/ˈdɔːrtʃɛstər/ DOR-ches-tər) is the county town of Dorset, England. It is situated between Poole and Bridport on the A35 trunk route. A historic...
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    Weymouth (53,427) and Dorchester (21,366). Dorset contains two unitary authority areas: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, and Dorset. The county did not...
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  • Dorchester Town Football Club are a semi-professional football club, based in Dorchester, Dorset, England. They currently play in the Southern League Premier...
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    Poundbury (category Geography of Dorchester, Dorset)
    experimental urban extension on the western outskirts of Dorchester in the county of Dorset, England. The development is led by the Duchy of Cornwall...
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    Fordington is a part of the town of Dorchester, Dorset; originally a separate village, it has now become a suburb. Taking its name from a ford across the...
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  • (1593–1676), of Dorchester, Dorset". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 30 May 2013. "STRODE, John I (1624–79), of Parnham, Dorset". History of Parliament...
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    United States. Originally, Dorchester was a separate town, founded by Puritans who emigrated in 1630 from Dorchester, Dorset, England, to the Massachusetts...
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    Boxster. Dorchester, Dorset, UK: Veloce Publishing. ISBN 1903706343. —————— (2016). Porsche Boxster: The 986 Series 1996-2004. Dorchester, Dorset, UK: Veloce...
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    Dorset County Hospital is a district general hospital in the town of Dorchester, Dorset, England. The hospital is managed by Dorset County Hospital NHS...
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    HM Prison Dorchester was a local men's prison, located in Dorchester in Dorset, England. The prison was operated by His Majesty's Prison Service, and closed...
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  • Dorchester may refer to: Dorchester, Dorset, the county town of Dorset Dorchester (UK Parliament constituency), a former parliamentary constituency in...
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  • South railway station in Dorchester, Dorset, England Dorchester West railway station in Dorchester, Dorset, England Dorchester station, a predecessor of...
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    The Territorials in Dorset trace their origins to the 1st Administrative Battalion, Dorsetshire Rifle Volunteers formed at Dorchester. Its first formation...
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    1989. Dorchester, Dorset, UK: Veloce Publishing. ISBN 9781845842994. ————— (2011). Mercedes-Benz SL W113 Series 1963 to 1971. Dorchester, Dorset, UK: Veloce...
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    West Dorset area fell within the West Dorset constituency; a small part was in South Dorset. The main settlements in West Dorset were Dorchester, Sherborne...
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    Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet (category People from Dorchester, Dorset)
    was born on 15 February 1853 in Dorchester, Dorset, the son of William Treves, an upholsterer, of a family of Dorset yeomen, and his wife, Jane (née Knight)...
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    compass (North Dorset, South Dorset, East Dorset, West Dorset). The South Dorset constituency was divided into 7 polling districts. Dorchester was chosen...
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    The Thomas Hardye School is a secondary academy school in Dorchester, Dorset, England. It is also part of the DASP group. The school is named after Thomas...
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    The village lies just east of the A352 road 10 km (6.2 mi) north of Dorchester. Dorset County Council estimate that the population of the civil parish in...
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    The Mayor of Casterbridge (category Culture in Dorchester, Dorset)
    set in a fictional rural England with Casterbridge standing in for Dorchester in Dorset where the author spent his youth. It was first published as a weekly...
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    The Roman Town House in Dorchester is a Roman ruin within Colliton Park, Dorchester, Dorset, England. Dorset County Council acquired Colliton Park in 1933...
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    District of Dorset wards of: Beaminster; Bridport; Chalk Valleys; Charminster St. Mary’s; Chesil Bank; Dorchester East; Dorchester Poundbury; Dorchester West;...
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    south of the county town of Dorchester, Weymouth had a population of 53,427 in 2021. It is the third-largest settlement in Dorset after Bournemouth and Poole...
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    Thomas Hardy (category People from Dorchester, Dorset)
    Bockhampton), a hamlet in the parish of Stinsford to the east of Dorchester in Dorset, England, where his father Thomas (1811–1892) worked as a stonemason...
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    ISBN 0760318115. Long, Brian (2021). Mercedes-Benz W124 series: 1984-1997. Dorchester, Dorset, UK: Veloce Publishing. ISBN 9781787117143. Niemann, Harry (2006)...
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  • enable the English colonisation of North America It was based in Dorchester, Dorset, near the English Channel, and was founded at the instigation of the...
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  • Dorchester East is an electoral ward in Dorset. Since 2019, the ward has elected 2 councillors to Dorset Council. The Dorchester East ward covers the eastern...
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  • held on the cricket grounds, Kingston Park, Kingston Maurward House, Dorchester, Dorset, England. The tournament was held to at least 1885. (Kingston Maurward...
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  • Dorchester Poundbury is an electoral ward in Dorset. Since 2019, the ward has elected 1 councillor to Dorset Council. The Dorchester Poundbury ward covers...
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    Durnovaria (redirect from Roman Dorchester)
    for the Latin form of the name of the Roman town of Dorchester in the modern English county of Dorset, amended from the actually observed Durnonovaria....
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