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Dorchester

Dorchester on Thames

Dorchester on Thames is an historic and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, , , located about 9 miles southeast of at the confluence of the and .
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  • Type: Village with 991 residents
  • Description: village in Oxfordshire, UK
  • Also known as: “Dorchester”, “Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire”, and “Dorchester, Oxfordshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include The George Hotel and Dorchester Abbey Museum.

Hotel
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Museum
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a local museum in the town of Dorchester, , . It is attached to . The museum occupies two buildings on the site of Dorchester Abbey.

Church
Photo: JohnArmagh, Public domain.
The Abbey Church of St Peter and St Paul, more usually called , is a Church of England parish church in Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire, about 8 miles southeast of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wittenham Clumps and Berinsfield.

Locality
Photo: Motmit, CC BY-SA 3.0.
are a pair of wooded chalk hills in the Thames Valley, in the civil parish of , in the historic county of , although since 1974 administered as part of South Oxfordshire district.

Village
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is an English village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, about 7 miles southeast of . The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 2,806.

Village
Photo: Motmit, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a hamlet on the north bank of the in civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England. It lies on the A4074 between and , at the junction with the A329.

Dorchester on Thames

Latitude
51.64395° or 51° 38′ 38″ north
Longitude
-1.16602° or 1° 9′ 58″ west
Population
991
Elevation
167 feet (51 metres)
Open location code
9C3WJRVM+HH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21275608
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2651100
Wiki­data ID
Q1243780
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Western Frisian—“Dorchester on Thames” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Dorchester on Thames”
  • Catalan: “Dorchester on Thames”
  • Cebuano: “Dorchester on Thames”
  • Chinese: “Dorchester”
  • Chinese: “泰晤士河畔多切斯特”
  • Czech: “Dorchester on Thames”
  • Dutch: “Dorchester on Thames”
  • Dutch: “Dorchester-on-Thames”
  • Dutch: “Dorchester”
  • Esperanto: “Dorchester on Thames”
  • Esperanto: “Dorchester-on-Thames”
  • Esperanto: “Dorchester”
  • French: “Dorchester on Thames”
  • French: “Dorchester-on-Thames”
  • French: “Dorchester-On-Thames”
  • French: “Dorchester”
  • German: “Dorchester-on-Thames”
  • German: “Dorchester”
  • Irish: “Dorchester cois Tamaise”
  • Italian: “Dorchester on Thames”
  • Italian: “Dorchester”
  • Japanese: “ドルチェスター・オン・テムズ”
  • Latin: “Dorcestria apud Mercios”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Dorchester (Oxfordshire)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dorchester-on-Thames”
  • Norwegian: “Dorchester-on-Thames”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Dorceceaster”
  • Persian: “دورچستر آن تمز”
  • Polish: “Dorchester on Thames”
  • Russian: “Дорчестер-он-Темз”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dorchester on Thames”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dorchester-on-Thames”
  • Slovak: “Dorchester on Thames”
  • Spanish: “Dorchester”
  • Swedish: “Dorchester on Thames”
  • Turkish: “Dorchester on Thames”
  • Western Frisian: “Dorchester (Oxfordshire)”
  • Western Frisian: “Dorchester”
  • “Dorchester on Thames”

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