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Topic: Dorset (disambiguation)


  
  Dorset
Dorset borders Devon to the west, Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north-east and Hampshire to the east.
In the 12th century civil war, Dorset was fortified with the construction of the defensive castles at Corfe Castle, Powerstock, Wareham and Shaftesbury, and the strengthening of the monasteries such as at Abbotsbury.
Dorset is famed in literature for being the native county of author and poet Thomas Hardy.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/d/do/dorset.html   (2779 words)

  
 Encyclopedia article on Dorset [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Dorset (pronounced 'Dorsit', sometimes in the past called Dorsetshire) is a county in the southwest of England.
Dorset has the second highest proportion of elderly people of any county in Britain, second only to East Sussex, with 25.9% of the population over 65 and 13.9% of the 16-74 age range retired.
Dorset's high chalk hills have provided a location for defensive settlements for millenia, with neolithic and bronze age burial mounds on almost every chalk hill in the county, and a number of iron age hill forts.
encyclozine.com /Dorset   (1846 words)

  
 Bristol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Greater Bristol.
For other uses of the term, see Bristol (disambiguation).
Counties with multiple districts: Cornwall - Devon - Dorset - Gloucestershire - Somerset - Wiltshire
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bristol   (4446 words)

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