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Which County is Dorset in?
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Dorset County is in South West England on the English Channel coast. Since at least 1305, the county town has been Dorchester, situated in the south of the county. Between its extreme points Dorset measures 80kilometres from east to west and 64km north to south and has an area of 2,653square kilometres.
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Dorset is located in the South West coast of England. It borders Devon, Hampshire, Somerset and Wiltshire counties. Dorset has a Jurassic Coastline, which features many natural landmarks, for instance the Lulworth Cove and the Chesil Beach.
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Lancashire.
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Bournemouth historically being in Hampshire, at the time of the 1974 local government re-organisation, it was considered desirable that the whole of the Poole/Bournemouth urban area
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1974... Although within the historic county boundaries of Hampshire, at the time of the 1974 local government re-organisation it was considered desirable that the whole of what is
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Dorset County Cricket Club was founded in 1896. That makes it 115 or 116 years old now.
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