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    West Dorset was a local government district in Dorset, England. The district was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and was a...
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    West Bay, originally known as Bridport Harbour, is a small harbour settlement and resort on the English Channel coast in Dorset, England, sited at the...
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    West Dorset is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Edward Morello, a Liberal Democrat. The seat was...
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    Dorset (/ˈdɔːrsɪt/ DOR-sit; archaically: Dorsetshire /ˈdɔːrsɪt.ʃɪər, -ʃər/ DOR-sit-sheer, -⁠shər) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered...
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    West Knighton is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of the county town Dorchester. It has an 11th-century...
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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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  • West Dorset by-election may refer to: 1895 West Dorset by-election 1941 West Dorset by-election This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...
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    REE-jiss) is a town in west Dorset, England, 25 miles (40 km) west of Dorchester and east of Exeter. Sometimes dubbed the "Pearl of Dorset", it lies by the...
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    West Stour is a village and civil parish situated in the Blackmore Vale area of North Dorset, England. It is one of a group of villages known as The Stours...
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    is a hamlet and civil parish in north west Dorset, England, situated 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Sherborne. Dorset County Council estimate that the population...
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    Bridport (redirect from Bridport, Dorset)
    Bridport is a market town and civil parish in Dorset, England, 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) inland from the English Channel near the confluence of the River Brit...
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    West Milton is a small village in western Dorset, in South West England, about 3 miles (5 km) northeast of Bridport and 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Powerstock...
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    are unique to the Dorset dialect, spoken in Dorset in the West Country of England. Wiktionary has a category on Dorset English. Dorset dialect Newton (2014)...
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    changed to the points of the compass (North Dorset, South Dorset, East Dorset, West Dorset). The South Dorset constituency was divided into 7 polling districts...
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    Thorn. "Dorset introduction". Digital Repository. University of Hull. Retrieved 25 April 2014. West Dorset, Holiday and Tourist Guide. West Dorset District...
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    West Compton is a hamlet and civil parish in the county of Dorset, England. It lies in western Dorset, about 7 miles to the east of the town of Bridport...
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    and Portland, West Dorset, North Dorset, Purbeck and East Dorset (non-metropolitan districts) combined with the functions vested in Dorset County Council...
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    Allington is a neighbourhood of Bridport in Dorset, England, immediately north-west of Bridport town centre on the west bank of the River Brit. Formerly a separate...
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    Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Bristol, with some considering it to extend to all or parts of Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire. The West Country...
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    National Statistics. Retrieved 16 February 2014. West Dorset, Holiday and Tourist Guide. West Dorset District Council. c. 1983. p. 10. Ordnance Survey...
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    The parish is currently in the Dorset County division of Sherborne Rural, and the Parliament constituency of West Dorset; the current MP is Chris Loder...
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    Leigh ( /laɪ/) is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) south-southwest of Sherborne...
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    Dorset is a rural county in south west England. Its archaeology documents much of the history of southern England. The first known settlement of Dorset...
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    Kristin Scott Thomas (category People from West Dorset District)
    needed] The childhood home of Scott Thomas was in Trent, near Sherborne, Dorset, England. Her mother remarried another Royal Navy pilot, Lieutenant Commander...
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    and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated 12 miles (19 km) north-west of Dorchester below the northern scarp slope of the Dorset Downs. The name Batcombe...
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    3. West Dorset, Holiday and Tourist Guide. West Dorset District Council. c. 1983. p. 10. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hermitage, Dorset. v t...
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    The Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, also known as the S&D, SDJR or S&DJR, was an English railway line connecting Bath (in north-east Somerset) and Bournemouth...
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    under the name Wareham Town, a civil parish, in the English county of Dorset. The town is situated on the River Frome eight miles (13 km) southwest of...
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    Charminster is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England, situated on the River Cerne and A352 road 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the county town...
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    List of places on the Jurassic Coast (category Natural regions of Dorset)
    places on the Jurassic Coast in southern England, in East Devon and Dorset, from west to east. Note that this is a more complete list than the template...
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