Crossword clues for dorset
dorset
- Pole put up, fixed in English county
- Party run by group in English county
- Vermont resort
- Type of sheep
- Hardy novel setting
- Southwest English county
- South England county
- Sheep with short wool
- S. England county
- Real English county on which Thomas Hardy based the fictional Wessex
- English sheep breed
- English county and sheep type
- English county — sorted (anag)
- County of southern England
- County in many a Hardy novel
- County east of Devon
- English county known for sheep
- English maritime county
- Setting of many Hardy novels
- Region of southern England on the English Channel
- Breed of sheep named for an English county
- County on the English Channel
- Devon neighbor
- ___ Horn, English breed of sheep
- County of south-west England
- English county - sorted
- Strode round rural area
- Strode around the county
- Strode around English county
- Little point embracing upturn if one's excluded county
- Republican in party ready to represent county
Wikipedia
Dorset (or archaically, Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the non-metropolitan county, which is governed by Dorset County Council, and the unitary authority areas of Poole and Bournemouth. Covering an area of , Dorset borders Devon to the west, Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north-east, and Hampshire to the east. The county town is Dorchester which is in the south. After the reorganisation of local government in 1974 the county's border was extended eastward to incorporate the Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch. 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.
The county has a long history of human settlement stretching back to the Neolithic era. 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. The first recorded Viking raid on the British Isles occurred in Dorset during the eighth century, and the Black Death entered England at Melcombe Regis in 1348. Dorset has seen much civil unrest: during the English Civil War an uprising of vigilantes was crushed by Oliver Cromwell's forces in a pitched battle near Shaftesbury; the doomed Monmouth Rebellion began at Lyme Regis; and a group of farm labourers from Tolpuddle were instrumental in the formation of the trade union movement. During the World War II, Dorset was heavily involved in the preparations for the invasion of Normandy, and the large harbours of Portland and Poole were two of the main embarkation points. The former was the sailing venue in the 2012 Summer Olympics, and both have clubs or hire venues for sailing, Cornish pilot gig rowing, sea kayaking and powerboating.
Dorset has a varied landscape featuring broad elevated chalk downs, steep limestone ridges and low-lying clay valleys. Over half the county is designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Three-quarters of its coastline is part of the Jurassic Coast Natural World Heritage Site due to its geological and palaeontologic significance. It features notable landforms such as Lulworth Cove, the Isle of Portland, Chesil Beach and Durdle Door. Agriculture was traditionally the major industry of Dorset but is now in decline and tourism has become increasingly important to the economy. There are no motorways in Dorset but a network of A roads cross the county and two railway main lines connect to London. Dorset has ports at Poole, Weymouth and Portland, and an international airport. The county has a variety of museums, theatres and festivals, and is host to one of Europe's largest outdoor shows. 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.
Dorset is a county in England.
Dorset may also refer to:
- Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)
- Dorset, Vermont
- Dorset, Minnesota
- Dorset, Ontario, a small community located between the touristic Muskoka and Haliburton regions of Ontario
- Dorset culture, a prehistoric culture that preceded the Inuit in Arctic North America
- Dorset Island, one of the Canadian Arctic islands located in Hudson Strait, Nunavut, Canada
- Dorset sheep, a breed of sheep
- Cape Dorset, Nunavut, Canada
- Marquess of Dorset
Dorset was a county constituency covering Dorset in southern England, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs), traditionally known as knights of the shire, to the House of Commons of England from 1290 until 1707, to the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom until 1832.
The Great Reform Act increased its representation to three MPs with effect from the 1832 general election, and under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 the constituency was abolished for the 1885 election, and replaced by four single-member divisions: North Dorset, South Dorset, East Dorset and West Dorset.
When elections were contested, the bloc vote system was used, but contests were rare. Even after the 1832 Reforms, only three of the nineteen elections before 1885 were contested; in the others, the nominated candidates were returned without a vote.
Usage examples of "dorset".
Thirty minutes later a very suspicious Blake Ravenscroft dismounted in front of Seacrest Manor, near Bournemouth, Dorset.
However, as it was quite an understood thing that York and Brummell should both have their particular apartments both at Belvoir and at Cheveley, his grace of Dorset acquiesced in the alteration, and was only glad that so notable a whist-player should have joined the party.
On the promontory washed on the one side by the slow stream of the Dorset Stour, and on the other by the no less sluggish flow of the Wiltshire Avon, not far from the place where they mingle their waters before making their way amid mudflats and sandbanks into the English Channel, stands, and has stood for more than eight hundred years, the stately Priory Church which gives the name of Christchurch to a small town in the county of Hants.
At the dissolution of the monasteries the diocese of Bristol was founded, which included the counties of Bristol and Dorset.
It was the very question she would have liked to put to him herself, but he had, after all, come hotfoot down to Dorset.
He wondered if the Ulva bombers had reached their mark, and whether Macadam had managed to scrounge up enough Plasroc and make the interminable trip north, at least as far as Cape Dorset, where his ground support was waiting.
I wrote to every one of the kennels in Dorset, and they all sent me their fancy brochures with color pictures of where they kept their animals, and actual menus of what they fed them, and how the runs and cages were heated, and what days the vet would come for checkups, and what days they did worming and grooming and all.
Middlesex, the Dorsets, and the Somersets, together with the Imperial Light Infantry.
On the 21st the Dorsets, Middlesex, and Somersets had borne the heat of the day.
Some time later, on the 10th of November to be exact, during the very early hours of the morning Cicely and I were walking along Dorset Street in Spitalfields, a dingy and poverty-stricken neighborhood.
The Dorset County racecourse, sin of sins, was outside the Hoopwestern catchment area.
Does no man remember the going back to his place when these strangers had bided in it for a while, after they beat us in Dorset?
Hobs and bogles too—get him to tell you about the Screaming Skull of Bettiscombe Manor—but mostly it’s Dorset history, the bits and loose ends that don’t fit into books.
The manner of his proceeding will be best exemplified by relating a discourse which he had with the Marquis of Dorset previous to the departure of the latter for Bradgate in Leicestershire.
Polar Eskimos lost the bow and arrow and the kayak, while Dorset Eskimos lost the bow and arrow, bow drill, and dogs.