One returning officer in the marginal seat of Dorset South said hundreds of voters had rung up to cancel postal votes owing to fears of fraud. |
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Given overall limitations to their mobility and associated subsistence production, we find nothing odd about the Dorset pattern. |
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In Anglo-Saxon times Wessex was a large kingdom of the West Saxons covering the present counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Hampshire, and Berkshire. |
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This is the most complete section of exposed Cornbrash along the Dorset coast. |
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I raise and hang my own beef, from Devon Ruby cattle, here on my small Dorset farm. |
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If you can't face all that fiddle, follow my example and buy direct from small Dorset company, Thursday Cottage. |
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Producers from the National Film Board are scouting in Iqaluit, Cape Dorset and Pangnirtung for artistic Nunavummiut who want to learn animation. |
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It helps, of course, that Woodbridge Farm is the only place in the world producing Dorset blue vinny cheese. |
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Uh Huh Her was written and recorded entirely in her Dorset home, and is a fairly extreme reaction to her previous work. |
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The winner of the Bournemouth Open was the most successful Dorset player in last year's South West divisional finals at Burnham and Berrow. |
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In Dorset, mackerel usually arrive in June, as they chase the sand eels and whitebait inshore, sometimes chasing them right up onto the beach. |
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The Queen's granddaughter, 23, was competing in trials in Dorset on Friday when she fell from her horse. |
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The eco-towns are described as larger versions of Prince Charles ' Poundbury estate in Dorset. |
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When not live coding, Click lives with a trowel and four chiliasts in Dorset, Essex. |
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The first bigeye tuna caught in 20 years in U.K. waters was taken off the coast of Dorset. |
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Imagine harsh whining noise emanating from a minstrel's gallery in a church in a woodland village in Dorset. |
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No date has been set for a final decision, but they are waiting for neighbours such as Dorset and Portsmouth to catch up. |
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We are in Shaftesbury, the Dorset town bucolically engirdled by the Vale of Blackmore. |
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The more discerning Dorset resident may wish to consider a 16 ft by 18 ft wooden beach hut on the county's coast. |
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It answered a midnight Mayday from a yacht in distress and altered course to make a mercy dash off the Dorset coast. |
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Anyone who's down in West Dorset and likes their country pubs real and not ersatz should give either, or preferably both, a whirl. |
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In south and east Dorset this resulted in the formation of two enormous structures, known as the Weymouth and Purbeck anticlines or upfolds. |
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A two-headed tortoise has come out of its shell in Dorset to find itself in the media spotlight. |
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The Dorset dialect jingle asks for a husband, and finishes by hoping for a good one, but anyone better than never a one. |
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Other independent traders who are facing steep rises include Tony Nixon, owner of a second-hand car dealership in Bournemouth, Dorset. |
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I've also recently registered myself in Dorset South, the UK's most marginal seat, as it happens. |
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Dorset county player Carly Cummins has completed an international double with a comfortable victory in the Spanish sunshine. |
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In the North, unseasonal downpours hit Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, while flooding in Dorset and Cornwall led to road closures. |
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The average life expectancy of a Glasgow man is 68.7, a decade less than men in Dorset. |
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Schledermann conjectures that these Skraelings may have been at least in part Dorset people. |
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The three-year-old from Chippenham visited prosthetics specialists in Dorset last week, to have new fittings to make her false legs more comfortable. |
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It was understood that Estelle was answerable to Dorset alone. |
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When we get into July they'll be coming from Dorset and Devon and with a bit of clement weather, the Scottish crop will arrive towards the end of August. |
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One brutal exhibit features a recently discovered mass grave in Dorset, southern England. |
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Although such ammonites are known in the English Jurassic, it clearly does not apply to these Lower Lias ammonites from Dorset which are largely devoid of epifauna. |
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Upon his return he encountered Mistress Dorset in the corridor. |
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He died in comparative poverty, but was buried in Westminster Abbey, where Lady Anne Clifford, countess of Dorset, paid for his handsome monument. |
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Tucked away in a courtyard of 15 th-century Cerne Abbey, in Dorset, Cerne Abbey Cottage is all leaded windows, mellow masonry and old-world loveliness. |
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An inventory of Okeman's works near Poole in Dorset, dated November 1583, records 55 hogsheads of copperas, along with the equipment for manufacturing alum and copperas. |
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I had the idea to write about her when I was at a small dinosaur museum in Dorset. |
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In 2007, a Dorset man brought a lawn statute featuring a recognizable Egyptian headdress to an expert for evaluation. |
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My father was born in Dorset, but went to Ireland with his parents when he was three. |
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She summoned an ambulance to the flat in Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset, but Miss Moss was pronounced dead at the scene. |
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To commemorate the association, a plaque was unveiled in Dorset Square on 9 May 2006 by Andrew Strauss. |
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Henry was staying safely at Corfe Castle in Dorset with his mother when King John died. |
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During 1942, the division was assigned to V Corps and had shifted west to defend the Dorset coastline. |
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On 5 November 1909, William Oliver Hutchinson started a Pentecostal Church in Britain at the Emmanuel Mission Hall in Bournemouth in Dorset. |
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There are extensive Liassic outcrops around the coast of the United Kingdom, in particular in Glamorgan, North Yorkshire and Dorset. |
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The 'Jurassic Coast' of Dorset is often associated with the pioneering work of Mary Anning of Lyme Regis. |
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It is part of South West England, bounded by Cornwall to the west, Somerset to the northeast, and Dorset to the east. |
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Rivers that flow into Lyme Bay include the Exe, Otter, Sid and Axe in Devon, and the Lim, Char, Brit and Bride in Dorset. |
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Portland Harbour is located beside the Isle of Portland, Dorset, on the south coast of England. |
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It is naturally protected by Portland to the south, Chesil Beach to the west and mainland Dorset to the north. |
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The port also sees various cruise ship calls bringing visitors to the Dorset area. |
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Clarkson, May and Hammond went on a caravan holiday in Dorset to try to find out more about caravanning. |
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The Dorset died off or abandoned the island prior to the arrival of the Norse. |
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The Dorset had withdrawn from Greenland before the Norse settlement of the island. |
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Collins determined that, based on the ruins found at Native Point, the Sadlermiut were likely the last remnants of the Dorset culture, or Tuniit. |
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It also provided evidence that a population displacement did not occur within the Aleutian Islands between the Dorset and Thule transition. |
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The Duchy has ventured into planned development with Poundbury, near Dorchester in Dorset. |
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In 1685 the Monmouth Rebellion was played out in Somerset and neighbouring Dorset. |
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The Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance is a charitable organisation based in the county. |
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Other places that saw violence included Dorset, Leicestershire, and Somerset. |
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The chalk uplands run northeast into West Berkshire in the Marlborough Downs ridge, and southwest into Dorset as Cranborne Chase. |
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It was endowed with lands in Devon, Dorset and Cornwall, and became one of the richest abbeys in the west of England. |
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In October, the government brought up this issue again, proposing an amendment to put the western part of Lymington borough in Dorset. |
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The main concentration is within Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, however clubs exist in Sussex, Somerset, Devon, Dorset, Wales and London. |
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Wessex gradually expanded westwards into Brythonic Dorset and Somerset in the seventh century. |
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However, in neighbouring Dorset crimes reports withdrawn or shown to be false are not recorded, reducing apparent crime figures. |
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The counties of Dorset, Rutland and Somerset were likewise formerly Dorsetshire, Rutlandshire and Somersetshire. |
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The west Dorset coast around Charmouth and Lyme Regis includes unstable cliffs which have given rise to undercliff areas with varied topography. |
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Agriculture was traditionally the major industry of Dorset but is now in decline and tourism has become increasingly important to the economy. |
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There are no motorways in Dorset but a network of A roads cross the county and two railway main lines connect to London. |
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Dorset has ports at Poole, Weymouth and Portland, and an international airport. |
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However, by the end of the 7th century Dorset had fallen under Saxon control and been incorporated into the Kingdom of Wessex. |
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However, Dorset was devastated by the bubonic plague in 1348 which arrived in Melcombe Regis on a ship from Gascony. |
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In December 2016, the organisers announced a move to The Lulworth Estate in Dorset. |
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Dorset is largely rural with many small villages, few large towns and no cities. |
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Dorset has a number of limestone ridges which are mostly covered in either arable fields or calcareous grassland supporting sheep. |
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The River Avon, which flows mainly through Wiltshire and Hampshire, enters Dorset towards the end of its journey at Christchurch Harbour. |
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The third most southerly county in the UK, Dorset is less affected by the more intense Atlantic winds than Cornwall and Devon. |
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West Dorset is represented by Conservative MP Oliver Letwin who was the Minister of State at the Cabinet Office in David Cameron's government. |
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Tourism has grown in Dorset since the late 18th century and is now the predominant industry. |
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As a largely rural county, Dorset has fewer major cultural institutions than larger or more densely populated areas. |
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The museum is the largest in Dorset and its collection has been designated of national importance. |
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The Dorset County Show, which was first held in 1841, is a celebration of Dorset's agriculture. |
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Dorset County Cricket Club competes in the Minor Counties Cricket Championship and is based at Dean Park Cricket Ground in Bournemouth. |
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Dorset hosted the sailing events at the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. |
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All three colours are used in Dorset County Council's coat of arms and the red and white was used in recognition of the English flag. |
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The golden colour represents Dorset's sandy beaches and the Dorset landmarks of Golden Cap and Gold Hill. |
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Running west from London Waterloo to Exeter St Davids in Devon, it provides a service for those who live in the western districts of Dorset. |
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Yellow Buses are the main providers of routes within the South East Dorset Conurbation. |
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Monastic foundations were once abundant in Dorset, but all ceased to exist at the Dissolution. |
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From the late 18th century onwards, churches in Dorset tended towards a Gothic Revival style. |
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Dorset has two higher education establishments situated in the heart of the county's south east conurbation. |
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Poole Harbour is a large natural harbour in Dorset, southern England, with the town of Poole on its shores. |
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This band is bordered by two bands of chalk, the Purbeck Hills and Isle of Wight to the south, and the Dorset Downs and South Downs to the north. |
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It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. |
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There are rowing clubs at Newport, Ryde and Shanklin, all members of the Hants and Dorset rowing association. |
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Hengistbury Head in Dorset was the most important trading site and large quantities of Italian wine amphorae have been found there. |
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Later coins of a similar type were struck in Britain and are found all along the south coast as far west as Dorset. |
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In 876 under their new leader, Guthrum, the Danes slipped past the Saxon army and attacked and occupied Wareham in Dorset. |
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According to late and dubious sources, these churches included minsters at Milton Abbas in Dorset and Muchelney in Somerset. |
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Northumberland, Stanley, Dorset, Sir Edward Woodville, and Richard with approximately 20,000 men took the town of Berwick almost immediately. |
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Several who had been imprisoned by his father, including the Marquess of Dorset, were pardoned. |
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In 1592, Raleigh was given many rewards by the Queen, including Durham House in the Strand and the estate of Sherborne, Dorset. |
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In 1597, he was chosen member of parliament for Dorset, and, in 1601, for Cornwall. |
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The South Western Main Line runs from London and Southampton to Bournemouth, Poole and Weymouth in Dorset. |
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The West of England Main Line runs from London to Exeter via south Wiltshire, north Dorset and south Somerset. |
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The A31, an extension of the M27, serves Poole and Bournemouth and the Dorset coast. |
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Dairy Crest makes brandy butter south of the town in Tatworth and Forton, near the meeting point of Dorset, Somerset and Devon. |
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In terms of local government, it was divided after 1974 into Avon, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset, and Wiltshire. |
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West Country Carnival events take place in Somerset, Devon, Wiltshire and Dorset. |
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This is a smaller area than the UK Government's South West England region, which also covers Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Dorset. |
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Wytch Farm is an oil field and processing facility in the Purbeck district of Dorset, England. |
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There is a black plaque commemorating the 40 years Babbage spent at 1 Dorset Street, London. |
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In 1926, at the age of 13, he went on to Sherborne School, an independent school in the market town of Sherborne in Dorset. |
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After leaving CERN in late 1980, he went to work at John Poole's Image Computer Systems, Ltd, in Bournemouth, Dorset. |
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In 1897 he was further honoured when Her Majesty raised him to the peerage as Baron Lister, of Lyme Regis in the County of Dorset. |
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The earliest dedication to the saint in England is a church at Fordington, Dorset that is mentioned in the will of Alfred the Great. |
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There is a linear park following the old Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway line. |
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In 1584 he took his seat in parliament for Melcombe in Dorset, and in 1586 for Taunton. |
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Dryden, Rochester, Buckingham, and Dorset dominated verse, and all were attached to the court of Charles. |
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Buckingham wrote some court poetry, but he, like Dorset, was a patron of poetry more than a poet. |
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He was also introduced by his Dorset friend Horace Moule to the works of Charles Fourier and Auguste Comte. |
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After five years, concerned about his health, he returned to Dorset, settling in Weymouth, and decided to dedicate himself to writing. |
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In May the Orwells took lease of a flat in London at Dorset Chambers, Chagford Street, Marylebone. |
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This series is about Monkey World, the popular ape and monkey sanctuary and zoo near Wool, Dorset. |
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Whilst many have an entry charge, more than 250 properties are free to enter including Maiden Castle, Dorset and St Catherine's Oratory. |
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His first ground, now referred to as Lord's Old Ground, was where Dorset Square now stands. |
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When Ryder took his family to Dorset for their annual summer holidays, he played golf at Came Down Golf Club. |
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The will of Alfred the Great is said to refer to the saint, in a reference to the church of Fordington, Dorset. |
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The Dorset culture was the first culture to extend throughout the Greenlandic coastal areas, both on the west and east coasts. |
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The Dorset culture population lived primarily from hunting of whales and caribou. |
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Greenland's culture began with settlement in the second millennium BC by the Dorset Culture, shortly after the end of the ice age. |
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The rocks can be viewed from the Dorset section of the South West Coast Path. |
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In 1914 Fleming attended Durnford School, a preparatory school on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset. |
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He spent his summers at various places in Scotland and England, including Westbourne, Dorset, a residential area in Bournemouth. |
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On returning, he was educated at Eton College and then at Bryanston School in Dorset. |
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The Old Ground was on the site now occupied by Dorset Square which is east of Marylebone Station and west of Baker Street. |
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The river rises in the Dorset Downs at Evershot, passes through Maiden Newton, Dorchester, West Stafford and Woodsford. |
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Historically this contained marshes and gave the name to the Durotriges, water dwellers, the Celtic tribe of Dorset. |
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Weymouth, Dorset offers itself as 'the gateway to the Jurassic Coast', Britain's only natural World Heritage Site. |
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Other deeds and estate papers related to the Society's interests in Somerset and Dorset are available at Somerset Heritage Centre. |
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In 1996, the town was twinned with Lyme Regis, in Dorset, England, the birthplace of Admiral Sir George Somers. |
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Canford Manor, Dorset, was extended in a Tudor Gothic style between 1848 and 1852, including a large entrance tower. |
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Its name is derived from its similarity to Portland stone, a type of building stone quarried on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England. |
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Aspdin named it due to its similarity to Portland stone which was quarried on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England. |
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In 1999, the A35 trunk road, which cuts through south Dorset, was moved to bypass the village. |
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Naturally hornless, the Ryeland was the major breed used in the development of the poll gene in the Poll Dorset in Australia. |
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He then moved to Bridport in Dorset, where he wrote several books about that area before moving to Kendal in Cumbria. |
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Other counties, apart from Dorset, did not display a grid reference and did not have a horizontal bar through the roundel. |
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He was educated at Sherborne School, Dorset, and graduated from Christ Church, Oxford, with a Master of Arts. |
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Toni Bailey says her Dorset Road garden has been covered in raw sewage since the drain first collapsed nine months ago. |
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Red brigades hang on in islands such as Anglesey in Wales and Brownsea in Dorset, as well as woody fringes in Scotland and northern England. |
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The move at the start of National Red Squirrel Week is a partnership project on the National Trust's Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour in Dorset. |
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He flew to England and performed the procedure,and now Koff is on the road to recovery and set for many a long walk near her home in Dorset. |
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A WORKER died after being overcome by fumes while trying to fix an anaerobic biodigester on a Dorset farm, an inquest was told. |
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Mary is known to have uncovered the world's first skeleton of an Ichthyosaur at the age of twelve near her home in Lyme Regis Dorset. |
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The adviser, from Dorset Primary Care Trust, also warned Symes that Blu-tack on posters in her waiting room posed a health risk if re-used. |
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Tomorrow, at Penydarren Park, the Martyrs are at home against Dorset club Sherborne Town with player-manager Garry Shephard back in the squad. |
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She had been taking part in a British Show Jumping Association event in Dorchester, Dorset, on Sunday. |
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Mark's pride and joy is his cheeseboard, which has won the Best in Dorset award. |
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If the intention was to produce poetry in the Dorset dialect, the result so far is doggerel in theatrical Mummerset. |
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Abbotsbury Swannery, Dorset SEE the subtropical gardens at night and visit the mute swans. |
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Other tutors include Lancashire croche expert Pauline Turner, domino knitter Frances Fletcher and Dorset button maker Carolyn Mace. |
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The two catfish and a giant gourami were evicted from the circular tank during a revamp of the dance club in Bournemouth, Dorset. |
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George Pothecary, Acting Deputy Chief Constable of Dorset, heads the investigation into Kitts's death. |
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Dorset's flag, which is known as the Dorset Cross or St Wite's Cross, was adopted in 2008 following a public competition organised by Dorset County Council. |
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Dorset contains 190 Conservation Areas, more than 1,500 Scheduled Ancient Monuments, over 30 registered parks and gardens and 12,850 listed buildings. |
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The Dorset County Museum in Dorchester was founded in 1846 and contains an extensive collection of exhibits covering the county's history and environment. |
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Among its many motoring snippets is the fact that the B3081 between Cann Common in Dorset and Tollard Royal in Wiltshire is the bendiest road in Britain. |
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A survey carried out in 1997 concluded that the primary reason tourists were drawn to Dorset was the attractiveness of the county's coast and countryside. |
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In 2009 there were 2,340 armed forces personnel stationed in Dorset including the Royal Armoured Corps at Bovington, Royal Signals at Blandford and the Royal Marines at Poole. |
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The most economically productive areas within the region are Bristol, the M4 corridor and south east Dorset, which are the areas with the best links to London. |
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During this time the tundra gave way to birch forests and grassland and evidence for human settlement appears at Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire and Hengistbury Head, Dorset. |
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The Dorset section has yielded important fossils, including Jurassic trees and the first complete Ichthyosaur, discovered near Lyme Regis in 1811 by Mary Anning. |
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All of the principal rock types can be seen on the Jurassic Coast of Dorset and East Devon, where they document the entire Mesozoic era from west to east. |
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Blandford Forum, Sherborne, Gillingham, Shaftesbury and Sturminster Newton are historic market towns which serve the farms and villages of the Blackmore Vale in north Dorset. |
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With A Little Help From My Friends will feature stars including Tara Palmer-Tomkinson redecorating a care home with mates from top girls school Sherborne in Dorset. |
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In total some 4,500 Dorset servicemen died in the war and of the county's towns and villages, only one, Langton Herring, known as a Thankful Village, had no residents killed. |
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Work on refuelling had also taken place at RAF Tarrant Rushton in Dorset. |
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In the 1790s, the King and his family took holidays at Weymouth, Dorset, which he thus popularised as one of the first seaside resorts in England. |
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Caracul, Dorset, Urial, Mufflon and Jacobs are types of what? |
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Some institutions are not going with turkey, such as Portland in Dorset, which is offering chicken leg chasseur, roast beef with Yorkshire pudding or cauliflower cheese. |
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However, the industrial revolution largely bypassed Dorset which lacked coal resources and as a consequence the county remained predominantly agricultural. |
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After his release, they retired to his estate at Sherborne, Dorset. |
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In the British Isles, Danes landed three Viking ships at the isle of Portland, Dorset in 786 AD, where they met and killed a local reeve and his men. |
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After the Norman Conquest in 1066, feudal rule was established in Dorset and the bulk of the land was divided between the Crown and ecclesiastical institutions. |
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In 789 the first recorded Viking attack on the British Isles took place in Dorset on the Portland coast, and they continued to raid into the county for the next two centuries. |
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Trying a free stretch of the River Frome, Cody, eight, from Wareham, in Dorset, set up a feeder rod and baited his size-16 hook with three red maggots. |
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It is the birthplace of Thomas Hardy, who used the county as the principal setting of his novels, and William Barnes, whose poetry celebrates the ancient Dorset dialect. |
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The Romans conquered Dorset's indigenous Celtic tribe, and during the early Middle Ages, the Saxons settled the area and made Dorset a shire in the 7th century. |
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Though we grow 60 acres of cereals our main income is from making and fixing combine harvester concaves for customers all over Ireland and as far away as Dorset. |
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This area has many other earthworks and erected stone monuments from the Neolithic and Early Bronze periods, including the Dorset Cursus, an earthwork 10 km. |
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Around half of the population lives in the South East Dorset conurbation, while the rest of the county is largely rural with a low population density. |
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To the north are the Dorset Heaths and to the west, the Weymouth Lowlands. |
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The A337 road links Lymington to Lyndhurst and the M27 motorway to the north, and to New Milton and the South East Dorset conurbation to the west. |
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For example, Stonehenge features the same kinds of monuments, and in Dorset there is a henge on the edge of Dorchester and a causewayed enclosure at nearby Maiden Castle. |
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Old Harry Rocks are three chalk formations, including a stack and a stump, located at Handfast Point, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, southern England. |
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It is here that the decisions are made regarding ambulance mobilisation for the four counties of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset, in response to 999 calls. |
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Researchers believe that the Dorset culture lacked the dogs, larger weapons and other technologies that gave the expanding Inuit people an advantage. |
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These were Bristol, Cornwall and West Plymouth, Devon and East Plymouth, Dorset and East Devon, Somerset and North Devon, Wiltshire North and Bath, and parts of Cotswolds. |
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They were gradually displaced by people of the Dorset Culture the L'nu, or Mi'kmaq and finally by the Innu and Inuit in Labrador and the Beothuks on the island. |
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In 1988, West Dorset District Council allocated land in the ducal estate, west of Dorchester, for housing development, which became known as Poundbury. |
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They also have an Archive Storage site located in Christchurch, Dorset. |
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There they encountered the Norsemen, who had established colonies there since the late 10th century, as well as a later wave of the Dorset people. |
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Researchers believe that the Dorset culture lacked the dogs, larger weapons and other technologies of the Inuit society, which gave the latter an advantage. |
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At the City Gas Works, in Dorset Street, Blackfriars, three chaldrons of coal were carbonized each day, providing the gas equivalent of 9,000 Argand lamps. |
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Newfoundland has the most Dorset culture archeological sites. |
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In 1833, six men from Tolpuddle in Dorset founded the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers to protest against the gradual lowering of agricultural wages. |
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The Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum in Tolpuddle, Dorset, features displays and interactive exhibits about the martyrs and their effect on trade unionism. |
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Paul visits the largest swannery in the world based in Abbotsbury, Dorset. |
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On 15 January 1895 Lady Charlotte Guest died at Canford Manor in Dorset. |
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The Weymouth Relief Road in Dorset was constructed between 2008 and 2011, after environmental groups lost a High Court challenge to prevent its construction. |
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Chaired by Sir William Draper, the members included prominent cricket patrons the 3rd Duke of Dorset, the 4th Earl of Tankerville and Sir Horatio Mann. |
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Dorset contains a range of privately funded independent schools. |
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The South Coast continues to the Isle of Wight, but eventually gives way to the Jurassic Coast of Dorset, a coastline rich in beauty, history and fossils. |
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Unlike all of its neighbouring counties, Dorset does not have a cathedral. |
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In 2017 the festival relocated to the Lulworth Estate in Dorset. |
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Most famously, the buildings of Cathays Park, the civic centre in the centre of the city, are built of Portland stone which was imported from Dorset. |
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They shared the island with the late Dorset culture inhabitants who occupied the northern and western parts, and later with the Thule culture that entered from the north. |
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Dorset is one of the few counties in England not to have a motorway. |
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It is also a reference to the Wessex Dragon, a symbol of the Saxon Kingdom which Dorset once belonged to, and the gold wreath featured on the badge of the Dorset Regiment. |
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