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Hace 2 días · Dorset, administrative, geographic, and historic county of southwestern England. It is bordered by the English Channel (south) and the counties of Devon (west), Hampshire (east), and Somerset and Wiltshire (both north). The historic town of Dorchester is the county seat.
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History of Dorset. Ancient County of Dorset. Dorset is a rural county in south west England. Its archaeology documents much of the history of southern England. Pre-Roman. Maiden Castle is one of the largest hill forts in Europe. [1] [2] Photograph taken in 1935 by Major George Allen (1891–1940).
Dorset derives its name from the county town of Dorchester. The Romans established the settlement in the 1st century and named it Durnovaria which was a Latinised version of a Common Brittonic word possibly meaning "place with fist-sized pebbles".
20 de may. de 2022 · The picturesque county of Dorset on England’s south coast is famous for its sandy beaches, quaint villages and rolling hills. With evidence of human settlement in the area dating to the Neolithic era, Dorset is brimming with history from the prehistoric era to the present day.
2 de dic. de 2010 · Dorset and East Devon Coast. The cliff exposures along the Dorset and East Devon coast provide an almost continuous sequence of rock formations spanning the Mesozoic Era, or some 185 million years of the earth's history.
Victoria County History - Dorset. Founded in 1899 and originally dedicated to Queen Victoria, the Victoria County History (VCH) is an encyclopaedic record of England's places and people from earliest times to the present day.
Two volumes of the Victoria County History of Dorset have been published. Volume II (1908) included Dorset's medieval religious houses, Political History, Maritime History, Social and Economic History, Agriculture, Forestry, Sport Ancient and Modern, Industries while Volume III (1968) provides the Domesday Book for Dorset and the accompanying ...
