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For other uses, see Dorset (disambiguation). Dorset Geography Status Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county Origin: Historic Region: South West England Area - Total - Admin. council - Admin. area Ranked 20th 2,653 km² Ranked 21st 2,542 km² Admin HQ: Dorchester Largest City/Town: Bournemouth (Unitary dorset streaming media Authority) ISO 3166-2: GB-DOR ONS code: 19 NUTS 3: UKK22 Demographics Population - Total (2005 est.) - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop. Ranked 30th 701,900 265 / km² Ranked 31st 401,200 Ethnicity: 98.1% White Politics Dorset County Council http://www.dorsetforyou.com/ Executive Conservative Members of Parliament Annette Brooke John Butterfill Christopher Chope Tobias Ellwood Jim Knight Oliver Letwin Robert Syms Robert Walter Districts Weymouth and Portland West Dorset North Dorset Purbeck East Dorset Christchurch Bournemouth (Unitary) Poole (Unitary) Dorset (pronounced west bay dorset 'DOR-sit' or [dɔ.sət], and sometimes in the past called Dorsetshire) is a county dorset holidays in the south-west of engineering jobs dorset uk England, on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester, situated in the south of the county at tom jones dorset theatre festival 50°43′00″N, 02°26′00″W. Between its extreme points Dorset measures 50 miles (80 km) event management dorset from east to west and 40 miles (64 km) north to south, map of dorset and has an area of 1,024 square miles (2,653 km²). secondhand cars in dorset Dorset borders Devon to the west, Somerset b&b poole dorset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north-east, and Hampshire to the east. The county is largely rural with a relatively low population and dsl service in dorset population density. Dorset's motto is 'Who's Afear'd'. Dorset is famous for its beautiful coastline, holiday cottages dorset the Jurassic Coast, which features landforms such as Lulworth Cove, the Isle dorset used car dealers of Portland, Chesil Beach and Durdle Door, as well as the holiday resorts of Poole, Bournemouth, Weymouth, part exchange homes dorset Swanage, West Bay and Lyme Regis. Dorset dorset steam fair is the setting of the novels of Thomas Hardy, who was born near the county town of Dorchester. motcombe dorset The cape dorset county has a long history of human settlement and some notable archaeology, including the hill dorset ontario forts of Maiden Castle and Hod Hill. Contents 1 History 2 Physical old harry rocks dorset geography 3 Demographics 4 Politics 5 Economy and wholesale candles dorset industry 6 Dorset people 7 Settlements and communications 8 See alfa romeo specialists dorset also 9 References 10 External businesses for sale dorset uk links History Main article: History of Dorset The earliest caravans dorset recorded use of the name was in AD 940 as Dorseteschire, meaning the dwellers (saete) of dorset police 'Dornuuarana' (Dorchester), the place of dorset solicitors fisticuffs (Welsh: 'Dwrn', 'fist'; and 'gwarae', 'play')[1]. The first known settlement of Dorset was by Mesolithic hunters, from around 8000 BC. Their populations were small and dorset executive office space concentrated along the coast in the Isle of Purbeck, Weymouth and Chesil Beach exercise program dorset and along the Stour valley. These populations used family rooms dorset tools and fire to clear these areas of some of the fitness gyms in dorset native Oak forest. Dorset's high chalk hills have provided a location for defensive settlements for millennia, with neolithic seatown cottages dorset and bronze age burial mounds on almost every chalk hill in camping dorset the county, and a number of iron age hill dorset sheep forts, the most famous being Maiden Castle. The chalk downs would have holiday cottages in dorset been deforested in these times, making way for farmland. Dorset has many notable Roman artifacts, particularly bed and breakfast dorset around the Roman town Dorchester, where Maiden Castle was captured from the Celtic Durotriges by cape dorset north west territories Vespasian in 54 AD, early in the Roman occupation. Roman roads radiated from Dorchester, following the tops dorset geology of the chalk ridges dorset landscape to the many small Roman villages around the county. In the Roman era, dorset loom settlements moved from the hill tops to the valleys, and the hilltops had been abandoned hardy family genealogy of dorset england by the 4th century. A large defensive ditch, Bokerley Dyke, delayed kitchen designers dorset the Saxon conquest of Dorset from the north east for serviced offices dorset up to two hundred years. The Domesday Book documents many Saxon settlements corresponding to shale dorset roman modern towns and villages, mostly in the valleys. There have been few changes to the parishes since the Domesday Book. Over the next few wedding photographer dorset centuries cape dorset baffin island the settlers established the pattern of farmland which prevailed into the 19th century, as well as many monasteries, which were important landowners caravan holidays in purbeck dorset and centres of power. In the 12th century civil war, Dorset was fortified with the construction carp fishing dorset of the defensive dorset coast castles at Corfe Castle, Powerstock, Wareham and Shaftesbury, and the strengthening of the monasteries such as at Abbotsbury. In the 17th century English Civil dorset holiday cottages War, dorset perception Dorset had a number of royalist strongholds, such as Sherborne Castle and Corfe Castle, which were ruined by Parliamentarian forces in the war. dorset watches In the intervening years, the county was used by the monarchy blandford forum dorset and nobility for hunting and the county still has a number of Deer chesil beach dorset holiday cottages Parks. Throughout the late Medieval times, the remaining hilltop settlements shrank dorset england further and disappeared. From the Tudor to dorset guide Georgian periods, farms specialised and the monastic estates were broke up, leading to an increase in dorset maps population and settlement size. During the industrial revolution, Dorset remained largely rural and still retains its dorset survivors agricultural economy. The Tolpuddle Martyrs lived in gallagher mobility grange rd xchurch dorset Dorset, and the farming economy of Dorset was central in the formation of the trade garden furniture dorset union movement. Physical geography Main article: Geology of Dorset Most of Dorset's housing search dorset landscape falls into two categories, determined by the underlying geology. There are a number of large ridges of mazda mx5 dorset limestone downland, much of which have been online college degree dorset vermont cleared of the native forest and are mostly grassland and some arable agriculture. These limestone areas include a band of chalk which crosses the online graduate degree program dorset vermont county from south-west to north-east incorporating Cranborne Chase, the Dorset Downs and Purbeck Hills. suppliers dorset wholesale candles Between the areas of downland website development dorset are large, wide clay vales (primarily Oxford Clay with some Weald Clay and weymouth dorset London Clay) with wide flood plains. These vales are primarily used for dairy agriculture, dotted campsites in dorset with small villages, farms and coppices. They include the Blackmore cottages in dorset Vale (Stour valley) and Frome valley. South-east Dorset, around Poole and Bournemouth, lies on very nonresistant Eocene clays doggers in dorset (mainly London Clay and Gault Clay), sands and gravels. These thin soils support a heathland habitat dorset caves which supports all seven native British reptile species. The River Frome estuary dorset council street light runs through this weak rock, and its many tributaries have carved out a wide dorset digital photographer estuary. At the mouth of the estuary sand spits have been deposited turning the dorset family tree research estuary into Poole Harbour, the second largest natural harbour in the world (after dorset literacy resources,uk Sydney Harbour, though Sydney's claim is disputed). The harbour is very dorset naga shallow in places and contains a number of islands, notably Brownsea Island, famous for its dorset square hotel Red Squirrel sanctuary and as the birthplace of dorset uk the Scouting movement. The harbour, and the chalk and limestone hills of the Purbecks dorset wholesale candles to the south, lie atop Britain's largest onshore oil field. The field, operated by BP from Wytch Farm, garden furniture in dorset produces a high-quality oil and geology field trip 2005 dorset boasts the world's oldest continuously pumping well (Kimmeridge, since the early 1960s) and longest horizontal drill horned dorset (5 miles, ending underneath Bournemouth pier). The pottery produced by Poole Pottery from the local hotels weymouth dorset clays is famous for its quality. Most of Dorset's coastline was designated a World Heritage Site in 2001 because lament for the dorset of its precision units dorset ltd geological landforms. The coast documents the entire Mesozoic era from Triassic to puddletown woods dorset Cretaceous, and has yielded many important fossils, including the first complete Ichthyosaur wareham dorset and fossilised Jurassic trees. Durdle Door natural arch The coast also features examples water testing dorset of most notable coastal landforms, including a textbook example of cove (Lulworth Cove) and natural arch arboriculture dorset somerset devon (Durdle Door). Jutting out into the car dorset hire uk English Channel is a limestone island, the Isle of Portland, connected to the mainland by Chesil Beach, a tombolo. One carlyon hotel dorset of the best ways to explore the Jurassic Coast is to follow the South West christchurch priory dorset Coast Path National Trail that runs along it. In the west dating dorset uk singles of the county the chalk and clay of south-east England begins to give way dorset guest house to the marl and granite of neighbouring Devon. Until recently Pilsdon Pen dorset job vacancies at 909 ft (277 m), was thought to be the highest hill in Dorset, dorset low rate mortgage but recent surveys have shown nearby Lewesdon Hill to be higher, at 279 m (915 ft). It is also a dorset old harry rocks Marilyn. The county has the highest proportion of 'Areas of Outstanding Natural dorset old harry rocks map Beauty' (44% of the whole county), 'World Heritage Sites', and 'Sites of Special Scientific interest' dorset square hotel articles in England. Lulworth Cove, a fine example of a cove. The county farm cottage holidays in dorset has warm summers and mild winters, being the third most southern county in the UK, but not westerly enough holiday dorset last minute to be afflicted by the Atlantic storms of Cornwall and Devon. The average annual temperature line dating poole dorset uk of the monkey sanctuary dorset county is 9.8 to 12 °C, with the exception of the highest areas of the downs[2]. In ohio dorset event photographer coastal areas around Dorset it is rare to have frosts, and it almost never snows. The poole dorset hotels county enjoys more sunshine than any other county, along with Hampshire, Kent and East properties to let dorset and West Sussex, with all five quality accountant bridport dorset weymouth dorchester counties receiving 1541–1885 hours[3]. Average annual rainfall is 871–1060 mm, river frome dorset less than counties to the west but slightly more than those to the east[4]. This slightly high rainfall means that Dorset has lush software development dorset vegetation. Demographics Poole Quay Dorset has a population of 407,217, plus 165,370 in surf shops dorset Bournemouth and 137,562 in Poole (total 710,149 — mid-year estimates for 2006). The following statistics exclude wholesale candles in dorset Poole and Bournemouth, which are no longer part of the administrative county. 91.3% of 4450 dorset st. apartment for sale in stockton Dorset's population were born in England and 95.2% were caravan hire dorset born within the United Kingdom. 98.8% are indigenous, an extreme example of the disproportionately small ethnic minority population in celtic survival dorset rural areas. 78% of the population are Christian, 13.7% are not religious. Dorset has the cheap holidays in dorset second highest proportion of elderly people of any christmas breaks dorset uk county in Britain, second only to East Sussex, with 25.9% cravans to hire in dorset of the population over 65 and 13.9% of the 16–74 age range retired. The county has deck chairs dorset uk the lowest birth rate of the 34 English counties, at 9.6 births per 1000. dorset attractions It has the third dorset inn highest mortality rate, behind East Sussex and Devon. In 1996 deaths exceeded births by 1,056, giving a dorset olde tyme bulldogge natural population decline of 2.7 per 1000, however, in 1997 there were dorset police poole and district childrens cancer 7,200 migrants moving to Dorset and the Poole-Bournemouth conurbation, giving Dorset the second highest net population-growth, behind Cambridgeshire, dorset rats at 17.3%[5][6]. Politics Dorset County Council is based at County Hall in dorset real estate for sale uk Dorchester. Following the local council elections in May 2005, 24 Conservative, 16 dorset spanish guitar player Liberal Democrat, four Labour and one independent councillor sit on the dorset square hotel london county council. All Labour councillors were elected in the built up area of dorset steam rally Weymouth and Portland, with rural areas returning Conservatives and Liberal Democrat councillors. This pattern is escorts dorset repeated at the national level. Dorset South is represented in Parliament by Labour MP Jim Knight, freight forwarders dorset though this constituency was Labour's smallest majority and was one of the most fiercely get fresh cosmetics dorset contested seats in the General holiday rentals in dorset Election of 2005. In the event, the seat went against the national trend and Mr Knight's majority increased slightly hotels in dorset on a house for sale part exchange dorset swing from the Conservatives. In all other Dorset constituencies, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are the most successful parties: Mid-Dorset and North Poole is represented houses for rent dorset by the Liberal Democrats, and West Dorset, Christchurch luxury hotels in weymouth, dorset and North Dorset by the Conservatives. The built up area of Poole and Bournemouth is divided into three constituencies, mobile home parks in dorset Bournemouth East, Bournemouth West nova dorset garden furniture discount and Poole, all of which are currently represented by Conservative MPs. Economy and industry Abbotsbury Great Barn In 2003 property sales dorset the gross value added (GVA) for the county was £4,673 million, with an additional £4,705 million for river cottage dorset Poole and Bournemouth.[7] 4% of GVA was produced by self catering dorset primary industry, 26% from secondary industry and 70% from show me monkey world in dorset tertiary industry. The average GVA for the 12 statistics regions of South West England was £6,257 tabby point siamese cats for sale in dorset million. Using 2004 population estimates, the GVA per person was £6,671 for Dorset, £15,683 for Poole and Bournemouth, £15,235 for the South tom jones dorset theatre festival, vermont West arthritis dorset and £16,100 for the UK. The principal industry in Dorset was once agriculture. It has not, however, bed and breakfast in wareham dorset been the largest employer for many decades as mechanisation has substantially reduced the number of workers bed and breakfast in weymouth dorset required. Agriculture has become less profitable and the industry has declined further. bradpole, dorset Between 1995 and 2003 GVA for primary industry (largely agriculture with some fishing and quarrying) declined from £229 to chalets for sale somerset dorset cornwall 188 million—7.1% to design dorset ecommerce services web 4.0% of the county's GVA. In 2002, 1,903 km² of the county was in agricultural use, down from 1,986 km² diary of geology field trip 2005 dorset in 1989, although the figure has fluctuated somewhat. dorset apple cake recipe Cattle, the principal animal stock in the county, fell from 240,413 to 178,328 in the same period, dorset bed and breakfast the dairy herds falling from 102,589 to 73,476. dorset building plots Sheep and pig farming has declined in a similar fashion. One of Dorset's famous products is the Dorset Knob, a hard biscuit. It can be used dorset english french translation as an dorset farm cottage holidays accompaniment to cheese, especially the local Dorset cheese, Blue Vinney. Tourism has grown as an industry in Dorset since the early 19th dorset olde tyme bulldogge breeders century. 4.2 million British tourists and 260,000 foreign tourists visited the dorset towns county in 2002, spending a combined total of £768 million. Foreign tourism declined in 1999 (310,000, dorset translation services down from 410,000 in 1998), and again in 2002 (down dorset weaving loom from 320,000), the latter decline being blamed on the effects of the dorset wildlife trust global economy and security. Dorset has little manufacturing industry, at drusillas inn dorset 14.6% of employment (compared to 18.8% for the UK), and is ranked 30th out the estate agents in corfe mullen dorset 34 English counties. The gross domestic product for the county is 84% that of the national ford transit van for sale in dorset average. Dorset will host the only Olympic event gillingham, dorset at the 2012 Summer Olympics held outside London – sailing – at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy in Portland Harbour. The seas gymnastic training dorset around Weymouth and Portland rank amongst holiday cottages in weymouth dorset the best in Northern Europe for sailing. Dorset people Cerne Abbas Manor House Dorset is famed in literature for being the native county hotels poole dorset of author and poet Thomas Hardy. Many of the places he describes in houses in dorset his novels in the fictional Wessex are in Dorset. The National Trust owns Thomas Hardy's how did dorset jurassic coastline end up the way it is today Cottage, in woodland east of Dorchester, and Max Gate, his house in Dorchester. Stalbridge was home jessica dorset of Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide jobs in dorset to the Galaxy. Poet William naufragio and dorset Barnes, authors Theodore Francis Powys, John le Carré, P.D. James and satirical novelist Thomas Love Peacock are also locals. John Cowper Powys set a postal tubes dorset number of his most famous novels in Dorset and Somerset. The property for sale in portland dorset author John Fowles lived in Lyme Regis real estate developments poole dorset uk before he died in late 2005. Dorset is also the birthplace of artist Sir restaurant studland dorset James Thornhill, musicians P.J. Harvey and Robert Fripp, photographer Jane spa break dorset Bown, paleontologist Mary Anning and archbishops John Morton and William Wake. Explorer Sir steam cleaning dorset Walter Raleigh lived in Dorset for a time. Scientist and philosopher Robert Boyle lived in Stalbridge Manor for thomas hopkins dorset a time. Dorset is a popular home for celebrities. Those who have moved to uk dorset dating or own second homes in Dorset include Madonna and virtual offices dorset Guy Ritchie, actor Martin Clunes, singer-songwriter Billy Bragg, Jonathan Ross, and footballer Jamie Redknapp[8]. Many of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's television programmes west dorset sheds are filmed at his home, just outside of Bridport. Settlements and communications Gold Hill, Shaftesbury Fortuneswell and Chesil Beach Weymouth Promenade See also: worbarrow bay dorset List of places 'herodiade dorset opera' in Dorset. Dorset is largely rural with many small villages, few large towns, and no cities. The largest conurbation 1841 dorset is the South East Dorset conurbation which consists of the seaside resort of Bournemouth, a beautiful home dorset vermont the historic port of Poole and the town of Christchurch plus many villages. Bournemouth was bed &breakfast accomadation dorchester dorset uk created in the cabanon dorset Victorian era when sea bathing became popular. As an example of how affluent the area has become, Sandbanks in Poole was worthless land unwanted camping dorset ready erected tents by farmers in cornucopia inn of dorset the 19th century, but is said to be amongst the highest land values by area in the world [9]. Bournemouth and Christchurch were added to the county from Hampshire in the county boundary changes of custom motorcycle seats dorset dorset christmas breaks uk 1974. The other two major settlements in the county are Dorchester, the county town, dorset falconry owl sanctuary and Weymouth, one of the first tourist towns, frequented by George III, and still very popular today. Blandford Forum, dorset fishing carp Sherborne, Gillingham, Shaftesbury and Sturminster Newton are historical market towns which serve the farms and villages dorset health authority of the Blackmore Vale (Hardy's Vale of the Little Dairies). Blandford is home to dorset naga seeds the Badger brewery of Hall dorset playhouse and Woodhouse. Bridport, Lyme Regis and Wareham are also market towns. Lyme Regis and Swanage are small coastal towns dorset police news popular with tourists. Currently in construction on the western edge of dorset property Dorchester is the experimental new town of Poundbury, commissioned and dorset road,penland road, bexhill co-designed by Prince Charles. The suburb is designed to integrate residential and retail buildings and counter dorset sheep tx the growth of dormitory towns and car-oriented development. Dorset is connected to London by two main railway lines. The West of England Main dorset tourism Line runs through the north dorset veg box of the county at Gillingham and Sherborne. The South Western Main Line runs through the south east dorset district council at Bournemouth, Poole, Dorchester and fly fishing in dorset uk the terminus at Weymouth. Additionally, the Wessex Main Line runs from Weymouth to Bristol. Dorset is one of only gillingham dorset four non-urban counties in England to not hanford farms dorset have a single motorway, along with Cornwall, Norfolk and Suffolk. The A303, A31 and A35 trunk roads run through the history of oakdale in dorset county. The only passenger airport in the county is Bournemouth International Airport, and there holiday cottages devon 26 dorset are two passenger sea ports, at Poole and Weymouth. See also List of places of interest holiday rentals in the purbecks dorset and tourist horned dorset primavera hotel attractions in Dorset List of Dorset beaches List of Parliamentary constituencies in Dorset List of Wikipedia images of Dorset West Country dialects UK topics References ^ Mapping horned dorset sheep collins the Dornsaete (Dorset) Domesday, Historical Maps of England, Ireland, Scotland and immediate availability holiday cottages in dorset Wales – verified 2005-04-22 ^ Met Office, 2000. industrial cleaning services dorset Annual average temperature for the United Kingdom. ^ Met Office, 2000. Annual average john morrison tom jones fielding dorset theatre sunshine for the United Kingdom. ^ Met Office, 2000. Annual average rainfall for the kimball lake dorset United Kingdom. ^ Office for National Statistics, 2001 census mark dorset data – verified 2005-04-22 ^ Dorset County Council Facts & Figures – verified 2005-04-22 ^ Office for middlemarsh, dorset National Statistics, 2003. Regional Gross Value Added (pp.240-253) ^ BBC Dorset, old ferndown, dorset n.d. "Dorset Celebrities." ^ "Island on the market for £2.5 million", BBC News April online bachelor degree program dorset vermont 13, 2005 Arkell, W.J., 1978. The Geology of the paintings of dorset Country around Weymouth, Swanage, Corfe & Lulworth. London: Geological Survey of Great Britain, HMSO. Davies, G.M., pilates dorset street 1956. A Geological Guide to the Dorset Coast, 2nd ed. London: A & C self storage dorset Black. Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911. Dorsetshire. Perkins, John W., 1977. Geology Explained in Dorset. London: sherborne dorset David & Charles. Pitt-Rivers, Michael, 1968. Dorset. London: Faber & Faber. Taylor, Christopher, 1970. The making of the Dorset stone circles in dorset landscape. London: Hodder & Stoughton. West, Ian, 2004. Geology of the Wessex Coast and Southern England, Southampton University, (Accessed between swanage dorset Sep 2003 and Oct 2004). 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