Dorchester in Brief Dorchester is an ancient market town and civil parish in Dorset, south-west England. Also the county town, it’s located 20 miles (32 km) west of Poole and 7 miles (11 km) north of Weymouth. It also sits on the banks of the River Frome, just to the south of the Dorset Downs….
Lyme Regis in Brief Lyme Regis is a town and seaside resort in Dorset, south-west England. It lies 25 miles (40 km) west of Dorchester and 26 miles (42 km) east of Exeter. The town sits on Lyme Bay on the English Channel at the Dorset–Devon border and the mouth of the River Lym. Dubbed…
Highcliffe in Brief Highcliffe, sometimes known as ‘Highcliffe-on-Sea’, is a large village in Dorset in southwest England. It lies 8 miles east of Bournemouth and 18 miles southwest of Southampton. It forms a parish with the village of Walkford, which is part of the South East Dorset conurbation. Situated on the English Channel coast, Highcliffe…
Gillingham in Brief Gillingham is a town and civil parish in Dorset’s Blackmore Vale in southwest England. The town lies on the River Stour, approximately 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Shaftesbury, and 6 miles (10 km) east of Wincanton. It also has the distinction of being the most northerly town in Dorset, close to…
Ferndown in Brief Ferndown is a town and civil parish in Dorset in the southwest of England. It lies immediately 6 miles (10 km) north of Bournemouth. Up until 1972, Ferndown parish was known as Hampreston, taking its name from one of the town’s neighbouring villages. At the 2011 national census, the population of the…
Christchurch in Brief Christchurch is an ancient town and civil parish in Dorset on the south coast of England. It’s nestled between Bournemouth to the west and the eastern edge of the New Forest. The town was historically part of Hampshire but transferred to Dorset under the local government reorganisation of 1974. In 2019, Christchurch…
geoffv