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Dorset button. 'Blandford Cartwheel' button. A Dorset button is a style of craft-made button originating in the English county of Dorset. Their manufacture was at a peak between 1622 and 1850, after which they were overtaken by machine-made buttons from factories in the developing industries of Birmingham and other growing cities.
Maiden Castle is an Iron Age hillfort 1.6 mi (2.6 km) southwest of Dorchester, in the English county of Dorset. [1] [2] Hill forts were fortified hill-top settlements constructed across Britain during the Iron Age . The earliest archaeological evidence of human activity on the site consists of a Neolithic causewayed enclosure and bank barrow.
Dorset, Ontario. Dorset is a small community located on the boundary between the Algonquin Highlands Township in Haliburton County, Ontario and Lake of Bays Municipality in Muskoka District, Canada. Dorset was originally called Cedar Narrows. In 1859 Francis Harvey became the first European settler here. Zachariah Cole mapped out the area for ...
Culture of Dorset. Dorset (or archaically Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the area covered by the non-metropolitan county, which is governed by Dorset Council, together with the unitary authorities of Poole and Bournemouth. Dorset is an average sized county with an ...
Dorset er et grevskab i det sydvestlige England. Den største by i Dorset er Bournemouth, men administrativt centrum er Dorchester. Dorset grænser op til Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire og Hampshire. Langs Dorsets kyst ligger, foruden Bournemouth, flere andre kendte bade- og ferieområder. Dorset består fra 1. april 2019 af to unitary authorities ...
This is a list of settlements and other places in Dorset, England. Towns, and settlements with populations over 3,000, are listed in bold ; other settlements in plain text. Contents:
Sherborne House was built c.1720 for Henry Seymour Portman as a halfway house between his properties in Somerset ( Orchard Portman) and Dorset ( Bryanston ). John Hutchins in his 'History of Dorset' [3] reported that the house was designed by 'Mr Bastard of Sherborne' ( Benjamin Bastard ), but, given the date if its building, it was more likely ...
