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  • |name=Dorset |map image=Dorset Brit Isles Sect 5.svg
    35 KB (5,395 words) - 10:01, 27 October 2018
  • ...orders with [[Gloucestershire]] in the north, [[Wiltshire]] to the east, [[Dorset]] to the south-east, and [[Devon]] to the south-west. Its north and west ar ...n, but it is believed to be Neolithic.<ref>{{cite web | title=Stanton Drew Stone Circles | work=English Heritage Archeometry | url=http://www.eng-h.gov.uk/a
    42 KB (6,548 words) - 10:39, 3 November 2016
  • |county=Dorset |constituency=South Dorset
    22 KB (3,303 words) - 18:55, 4 September 2018
  • |county=Dorset |LG district=West Dorset
    13 KB (2,035 words) - 18:51, 29 January 2016
  • |county=Dorset |constituency=Poole<br>Mid Dorset & North Poole
    29 KB (4,491 words) - 10:56, 6 May 2020
  • [[File:Green Island Poole Harbour.jpg|230px|thumb|right|Green Island, one of the islands within Poole Harbour]] ...and is the estuary of several rivers, the largest being the [[River Frome, Dorset|Frome]]. The harbour has a long history of human settlement stretching to
    15 KB (2,416 words) - 22:48, 20 January 2011
  • {{Infobox island ...sh Isles, and is reckoned the ninth largest island in the world. The whole island is within the United Kingdom and it makes up for most of its territory. It
    26 KB (4,060 words) - 21:45, 11 June 2019
  • |picture=Christchurch Dorset 01.jpg ...he meeting of the rivers [[River Avon, Hampshire|Avon]] and [[River Stour, Dorset|Stour]] which flow into [[Christchurch Harbour]]. The town was originally n
    29 KB (4,437 words) - 09:29, 30 March 2017
  • ...per before they set forth from the harbour over the treacherous sea to the island. ...its new bombing school after similar locations in [[Northumberland]] and [[Dorset]] were met with protests.<ref name="Davies">Davies, ''op cit'', page 592</r
    14 KB (2,197 words) - 22:47, 17 January 2017
  • ...that left a heritage of exemplary Georgian architecture crafted from Bath Stone. ...around Bath such as [[Bathampton Down]] saw human activity from the Middle Stone Age.<ref>{{cite web|last=Wessex Archaeology|title=Archaeological Desk- base
    45 KB (7,203 words) - 09:14, 22 August 2017
  • The '''Isle of Portland''' is a limestone tied island on the [[Dorset]] coast. It is 4 miles long by a mile and a half wide, projecting into the ...landforms. Its name is used for one of the [[British Sea Areas]]. Portland stone, famous for its use in British and world architecture, including St Paul's
    28 KB (4,342 words) - 15:34, 28 February 2021
  • ...er time the name evolved first into Pratteshide,<ref name=RBoD/> then Mona Island. The original site is marked by a seating area next to the Magnolia Shoppin ...k and a bell. The interior, which has 1,500 sittings, has a canopy of Beer stone in the florid Gothic style over the communion table.
    12 KB (1,994 words) - 05:46, 19 November 2022
  • ...ally widened and deepened for many thousands of years. The [[River Frome, Dorset|River Frome]] was the source of the River Solent, with three other rivers ...58.The_secrets_of_the_deep/ thisishampshire.net, ''Startling evidence of a Stone Age structure in the Solent.''] - Retrieved 03 Oct. 2009</ref>
    12 KB (1,968 words) - 10:32, 14 September 2020
  • ===Dorset=== ...land]] [{{Flag Institute|Portland}}] || Cream, green and blue for Portland stone, grass and the sea, with a tower and naval crown for the Royal Navy and the
    24 KB (3,544 words) - 07:30, 19 November 2023
  • |county=Dorset |LG district=West Dorset
    19 KB (3,137 words) - 15:12, 27 January 2016
  • [[File:Portland Stone.JPG|right|thumb|200px|Piles of stone at Portland Bill from ex-quarrying in the area]] {{#vardefine:shire|Dorset}}
    9 KB (1,404 words) - 19:37, 13 May 2020
  • ...ast its southern side, beyond which lies [[Langstone]], and then [[Hayling Island]]. ...with stone from Warblington Castle. The present house, of buff bricks from Dorset, passed in the early part of the 19th century into the ownership of the Lon
    7 KB (1,106 words) - 17:02, 24 May 2013
  • ...ver of [[Somerset]], 37 miles long and flowing through both Somerset and [[Dorset]], rising in the latter county. ...rett is in the Thorney Mills springs in the hills around [[Chedington]] in Dorset. Flowing northwest through Somerset and the [[Somerset Levels]] to its mout
    32 KB (4,817 words) - 20:15, 7 August 2013
  • ...is known as the Isle of Athelney, because it was once a very low isolated island in the 'very great swampy and impassable marshes' of the Somerset Levels. ...English: in the records it is named ''Æthelinga ieg'', meaning "Princes' Island''.
    4 KB (622 words) - 21:50, 18 September 2019
  • |village=[[Corfe Castle, Dorset|Corfe Castle]] |county=Dorset
    17 KB (2,603 words) - 11:13, 6 September 2018

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