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Dorchester

Dorchester is the county town of . 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.
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  • Type: Town with 19,500 residents
  • Description: town in Dorset, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Dorchester, Dorset”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dinosaur Museum and Maumbury Rings.

Museum
Photo: Chris Talbot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is a museum presenting dinosaurs in Dorchester, the county town of , in southern . The is the only museum in mainland dedicated purely to dinosaurs.

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is a Neolithic henge in the south of Dorchester town in , . It is a large circular earthwork, 85 metres in diameter, with a single bank and an entrance to the north east.

Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dorchester West is one of two railway stations that serve the town of Dorchester in , England, the other being . It is managed by Great Western Railway, which also operates all services that stop here.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Poundbury and Charlton Down.

Suburb
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is an experimental urban extension on the western outskirts of Dorchester in the county of , England. The development is led by the Duchy of Cornwall, and had the keen endorsement of King Charles III when he was Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall.

Village
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is a new village in , England, situated approximately 4 miles north of the county town Dorchester. It lies within the civil parish of . is situated 2½ miles north of Dorchester.

Dorchester

Latitude
50.7132° or 50° 42′ 48″ north
Longitude
-2.4371° or 2° 26′ 14″ west
Population
19,500
Elevation
180 feet (55 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB DHR
Open location code
9C2VPH77+75
Open­Street­Map ID
node 18024342
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2651101
Wiki­data ID
Q503331
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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: “Dorchester”
  • Chinese: “多切斯特”
  • Chinese: “多爾切斯特”
  • Chinese: “道徹斯特”
  • 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)”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • “Dorchester”

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