Dorset County Council
http://www.dorsetforyou.com/

• Annette Brooke
• John Butterfill
• Christopher Chope
• Tobias Ellwood
• Jim Knight
• Oliver Letwin
• Robert Syms
• Robert Walter

1. Weymouth and Portland
2. West Dorset
3. North Dorset
4. Purbeck
5. East Dorset
6. Christchurch
7. Bournemouth (Unitary)
8. Poole (Unitary)

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Dorset

Geography
Status	Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county
Origin:	Historic
Region:	South West England
Area - Total - Admin. council - Admin. area	Ranked 20th 2,653 km² Ranked 21st 2,542 km²
Admin HQ:	Dorchester
Largest City/Town:	Bournemouth (Unitary Authority)
GB:	GB-DOR
ONS code:	19
NUTS 3:	UKK22
Demographics
Population - Total () - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop.	Ranked / km² Ranked
Ethnicity:	98.1% White
Politics
Executive
Members of Parliament
Districts
Traditional county
Geography
Ranked 23rd 627,265 acres ? %
County town	Dorchester
Chapman code	DOR

Dorset (pronounced Dorsit, sometimes in the past called Dorsetshire) is a county in the southwest of England, on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester, situated in the south of the county at . Between its extreme points Dorset measures 50 miles (80 km) from east to west and 40 miles (64 km) north to south, and has an area of 1,024 square miles (2,653 km²). Dorset borders Devon to the west, Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north-east and Hampshire to the east. The county is largely rural with a low population and population density. Dorset's motto is Who's Afear'd.

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Ok all i got to do now is get from Cornwall to coastal Dorset by 11am Saturday for a conferance- public transport will not do it and then...
ecogenie (Kathryn Driscoll) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:39:39 -0000
Ok all i got to do now is get from Cornwall to coastal Dorset by 11am Saturday for a conferance- public transport will not do it and then...
@NoSheds hmm. I think that the met office is playing a joke on us poor simple Darzet folk, you. "Dorset: snow-free since 1976." Well nearly!
slruffell (Stuart L Ruffell) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:18:29 -0000
@NoSheds hmm. I think that the met office is playing a joke on us poor simple Darzet folk, you. "Dorset: snow-free since 1976." Well nearly!
I'm loading up the out-takes from my Dorset video and hoping it snows hard enough tonight so that I can film a snowy episode tomorrow! :) x
SHYYETI (PAUL CHANDLER) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:14:55 -0000
I'm loading up the out-takes from my Dorset video and hoping it snows hard enough tonight so that I can film a snowy episode tomorrow! :) x
@PaulOBrien None here in mid dorset either, apart from a pathetic dusting that doesn't count.
squirreleater1 (Stuart McGregor) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:13:37 -0000
@PaulOBrien None here in mid dorset either, apart from a pathetic dusting that doesn't count.
#uksnow sp8 0/10 metoffice warnings of severe snowfall for Dorset - hoax or joke? Hmm...
slruffell (Stuart L Ruffell) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:12:03 -0000
#uksnow sp8 0/10 metoffice warnings of severe snowfall for Dorset - hoax or joke? Hmm...
Wow. Unfortunate Slovakian electrician guy: http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0105/dorset.html
harnesser (Marty) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:05:50 -0000
Wow. Unfortunate Slovakian electrician guy: http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0105/dorset.html

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