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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Charminster (redirect from Charminster, West Dorset)
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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