Ontario
Middlesex County
Thames Centre

Dorchester

Dorchester is a town in whose name first applied to the township and honours Sir Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester. The name was changed from Dorchester Station on May 3, 1961.
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  • Type: Town with 9,330 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada
  • Also known as: “Dorchester, Ontario”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lord Dorchester Secondary School.

School building
is a Thames Valley District School Board Secondary School located in the town of Dorchester, Ontario, part of the municipality of , in the county of Middlesex, in Ontario, Canada.

Dorchester

Latitude
42.98869° or 42° 59′ 19″ north
Longitude
-81.0587° or 81° 3′ 31″ west
Population
9,330
Elevation
260 metres (853 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CA DCS
Open location code
86JWXWQR+FG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 300476654
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5941761
Wiki­data ID
Q5297584
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Dorchester” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Dorchester”
  • Dutch: “Dorchester”
  • Hungarian: “Dorchester”
  • Irish: “Dorchester”
  • Swedish: “Dorchester, Ontario”
  • Swedish: “Dorchester”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Middlesex County Library - Dorchester and Saint Peter’s Anglican Church.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Dorchester”. Photo: P199, CC BY-SA 3.0.