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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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 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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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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Lyme Regis (redirect from Lyme Regis to West Bay - Dorset and East Devon Coast)
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 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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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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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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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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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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Sherborne (redirect from Sherborne, Dorset)
Sherborne is a market town and civil parish in north west Dorset, in South West England. It is sited on the River Yeo, on the edge of the Blackmore Vale...
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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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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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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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Parliament (MP) for West Dorset from 2019 to 2024. Christopher Loder was born on 5 September 1981 in Sherborne. He grew up near Folke in Dorset on his parents'...
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Edward Morello (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Dorset)
Morello is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament for West Dorset since 2024. A member of the Liberal Democrats, he gained the seat from...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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(/ˈɡɪlɪŋəm/ GHIL-ing-əm) is a town and civil parish in the Blackmore Vale area of Dorset, England. It lies on the B3095 and B3081 roads, approximately four miles...
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(unitary authority) Christchurch (part) Mid Dorset and North Poole (part) North Dorset South Dorset West Dorset Primary data source: House of Commons research...
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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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Poundbury (category Villages in Dorset)
urban extension on the western outskirts of Dorchester in the county of Dorset, England. The development is led by the Duchy of Cornwall, and had the keen...
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Tolpuddle (redirect from Tolpuddle, Dorset)
in Dorset, England, on the River Piddle from which it takes its name, 8 miles (13 km) east of Dorchester, the county town, and 12 miles (19 km) west of...
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