Dorchester
Dorchester is the county town of Dorset. A market town with an undoubtedly long history, Dorchester has connections to Thomas Hardy, the Tolpuddle Martyrs and Roman Britain, and today features a wide range of visitor attractions, independent retailers and eateries.
- Town with 19,500 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 180 feet (55 metres)
- …is also known as “Dorchester, Dorset”
- Description: town in Dorset, England, UK
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dinosaur Museum and Dorchester West railway station.
Dorchester West railway station
Railway station
Dorchester South railway station
Railway station
Dorchester South is one of two railway stations that…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Poundbury and Charlton Down.
Charlton Down
Village
Dorchester
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Latitude
50.7132° or 50° 42′ 48″ north
Longitude
-2.4371° or 2° 26′ 14″ west
UN/LOCODE
GB DHR
Open location code
9C2VPH77+75
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Dorchester” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Dorchester, Dorset”
- Afrikaans: “Dorchester”
- Arabic: “دورشيستر (دورست)”
- Arabic: “دورشيستر”
- Armenian: “Դորչեսթեր”
- Azerbaijani: “Dorçester”
- Basque: “Dorchester”
- Belarusian: “Дарчэстэр”
- Belarusian: “Дорчэстэр (Дорсет)”
- Belarusian: “Дорчэстэр”
- Bengali: “ডরচেস্টার”
- Breton: “Dorchester”
- Bulgarian: “Дорчестър”
- Catalan: “Dorchester”
- Cebuano: “Dorchester”
- Chinese: “多切斯特”
- Chinese: “多爾切斯特”
- Cornish: “Dorchester”
- Czech: “Dorchester”
- Danish: “Dorchester”
- Dutch: “Dorchester”
- Esperanto: “Dorchester”
- Estonian: “Dorchester”
- Finnish: “Dorchester”
- French: “Dorchester”
- Georgian: “დორჩესტერი”
- German: “Dorchester”
- Greek: “Ντόρτσεστερ”
- Gujarati: “ડોર્શેસ્ટર”
- Hebrew: “דורצ’סטר”
- Hungarian: “Dorchester”
- Irish: “Dorchester”
- Italian: “Dorchester”
- Japanese: “ドーチェスター”
- Kannada: “ಡಾರ್ಚೆಸ್ಟರ್”
- Korean: “도체스터”
- Ladin: “Dorchester”
- Latin: “Durnovaria”
- Latvian: “Dorčestera”
- Lithuanian: “Dorčesteris”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dorchester (Dorset)”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dorchester”
- Northern Frisian: “Dorchester (Dorset)”
- Northern Frisian: “Dorchester”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dorchester”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dorchester i Dorset”
- Norwegian: “Dorchester”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Dornwara ceaster”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Dornwaraceaster”
- Ossetian: “Дорчестер”
- Persian: “دورچستر، دورست”
- Persian: “دورچستر”
- Polish: “Dorchester”
- Portuguese: “Dorchester”
- Quechua: “Dorchester (Dorset)”
- Quechua: “Dorchester”
- Romanian: “Dorchester”
- Russian: “Дорчестер”
- Scots: “Dorchester”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dorchester, Dorset”
- Slovak: “Dorchester”
- Slovenian: “Dorchester, Dorset”
- South Azerbaijani: “دورچستر، دورست”
- Spanish: “Dorchester”
- Swedish: “Dorchester”
- Tamil: “டோர்சேஸ்டெர்”
- Telugu: “డోర్చెస్టర్”
- Turkish: “Dorchester, Dorset”
- Ukrainian: “Дорчестер”
- Urdu: “ڈورچسٹر، ڈورسٹ”
- Volapük: “Dorchester”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dorchester, Dorset”
- Welsh: “Dorchester, Dorset”
- Welsh: “Dorchester”
- Western Armenian: “Տորչեսթըր”
- Western Frisian: “Dorchester (Dorset)”
- Western Frisian: “Dorchester”
- Western Panjabi: “ڈورچسٹر، ڈورسٹ”
- Yiddish: “דארטשעסטער”
- Yue Chinese: “道徹斯特”
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