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    Purbeck was a local government district in Dorset, England. The district was named after the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula that forms a large proportion...
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    the whole of the Isle of Purbeck lay within the local government district of Purbeck, which was named after it. The district extended significantly further...
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    Down Ballard Point The Pinnacles Parson's Barn Old Harry Rocks Purbeck Hills Isle of Purbeck Geology of Dorset Geology of the United Kingdom List of fossil...
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  • county of Dorset Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum Purbeck District, a local government district in the English county of Dorset Purbeck Hills, a range...
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  • Purbeck District Council in Dorset, England existed from 1973 to 2019. One-third of the council was elected each year, followed by one year where there...
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    area has been governed by Dorset Council. Weymouth, Portland and the Purbeck district are in the South Dorset parliamentary constituency. A seaside resort...
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  • Elections to Purbeck District Council were held on 1 May 2008. Nine of the twenty-four seats on the council were up for election and the council stayed...
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  • Elections to Purbeck District Council were held on 5 May 2011, alongside other local elections across the United Kingdom. Eight seats (one-third) of the...
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    Regis is part of the West Purbeck ward which elects 2 members to Dorset Council. It is formerly governed by Purbeck District Council and Bere Regis Parish...
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  • Mathmos (category Purbeck District)
    Mathmos Limited is a British company that sells lighting products, most famously the lava lamp invented by its founder Edward Craven Walker. It is headquartered...
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    Wareham, Dorset (category Purbeck District)
    Explorer Map OL15 - Purbeck & South Dorset. Ordnance Survey. 2006. ISBN 978-0-319-23865-3. "Parish Statistics" (PDF). Purbeck District Council. 11 January...
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  • The following is a list of churches in Purbeck, Dorset. St James's Church, Kingston, Purbeck Lady St Mary Church, Wareham St Martin's Church, Wareham...
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  • Elections to Purbeck District Council were held on 10 June 2004. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall...
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    Shitterton (category Purbeck District)
    households contributed £20 each and a further £70 was contributed by Purbeck District Council. A truck and crane were hired by volunteers to put the stone...
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  • Elections to Purbeck District Council were held on 6 May 1999. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 1998...
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    Royal Armoured Corps (category Purbeck District)
    The Royal Armoured Corps is the armoured arm of the British Army, that together with the Household Cavalry provides its armour capability, with vehicles...
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    Gerald James Whitrow (category People from Purbeck District)
    Gerald James Whitrow (9 June 1912 – 2 June 2000) was a British mathematician, cosmologist and science historian. Whitrow was born on 9 June 1912 at Kimmeridge...
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    William John Bankes (category People from Purbeck District)
    William John Bankes (11 December 1786 – 15 April 1855) was an English politician, explorer, Egyptologist and adventurer. The second, but first surviving...
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    of the Poole suburb of Hamworthy. It is the second largest town in the Purbeck Hills. The town is built around a road junction where the Blandford to...
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    Valentine Ackland (category People from Purbeck District)
    Valentine Ackland (born Mary Kathleen Macrory Ackland; 20 May 1906 – 9 November 1969) was an English poet, and life partner of novelist Sylvia Townsend...
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    Dorset County Council, Weymouth and Portland Borough Council and Purbeck District Council demanded a public inquiry to investigate the experiments. The...
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    buildings in England. This page is a list of these buildings in the district of Purbeck in Dorset. Grade I listed buildings in Dorset The date given is the...
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    v t e Towns, villages and hamlets in the former Purbeck district of Dorset, England Affpuddle Arne Bere Regis Bloxworth Briantspuddle Chaldon Herring Church...
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  • Thomas Trenchard (died 1671) (category People from Purbeck District)
    Thomas Trenchard (1640 – 20 November 1671) was an English politician who served as Member of Parliament for Poole in Dorset from 1670 to 1671. His younger...
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    φροντὶς ("why worry"). The site was in the parish of Turners Puddle in Purbeck District. As "Clouds Hill (Lawrence of Arabia's Cottage)", it is now a Grade...
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  • The 2010 Purbeck District Council election took place on 6 May 2010 to elect members of Purbeck District Council in Dorset, England. One third of the...
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    Slepe (category Purbeck District)
    England. It is located on the A35 east of Organford. OS Explorer Map OL15 - Purbeck & South Dorset. Ordnance Survey. 2006. ISBN 978-0-319-23865-3. v t e...
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    Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (category People from Purbeck District)
    Octavius Pickard-Cambridge FRS (3 November 1828 – 9 March 1917) was an English clergyman and zoologist. He was a keen arachnologist who described and named...
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    Tyneham (category Isle of Purbeck)
    Steeple with Tyneham, in the Dorset district, in the south of Dorset, England, near Lulworth on the Isle of Purbeck. In 2001 the civil parish had a population...
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    v t e Towns, villages and hamlets in the former Purbeck district of Dorset, England Affpuddle Arne Bere Regis Bloxworth Briantspuddle Chaldon Herring Church...
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