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In the early 20th century, Shire Hall in Dorchester was the local facility for dispensing justice and the meeting place of Dorset County Council. [1] After deciding the Shire Hall was inadequate for their needs, county leaders chose to procure a new county headquarters: the site selected had previously been open land known as "Colliton Park" which had once been occupied by the monastic ...
County Hall, Dorchester. Dorset is a unitary authority area, existing since 1 April 2019, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. It covers all of the ceremonial county except for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.
A non-metropolitan district of Dorset was created matching the new version of the non-metropolitan county. Dorset Council is legally the district council, and there is no separate county council; the district council also performs county council functions, making it a unitary authority. [6]
Dorset Record Office was founded in 1955, and based at the County Hall in Dorchester. It expanded through the remainder of the 1950s by taking in the archives stored at the Dorset County Museum, and becoming the Diocesan Record Office in 1959. The Record Office continued to be based at County Hall through the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, with a new ...
From 1889 until 1955 the council met at Shire Hall on High West Street in Dorchester (which also retained its primary function as a courthouse during that time). In 1910 the council bought the adjoining Stratton House (also known as Agriculture House) at 59-61 High West Street to serve as its main offices.
The Roman Town House in Dorchester is a Roman ruin within Colliton Park, Dorchester, Dorset, England. Dorset County Council acquired Colliton Park in 1933 as the site for the construction of County Hall. The Town House was discovered in 1937/38 during an archaeological investigation carried out by the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological ...
This is a list of electoral divisions and wards in the ceremonial county of Dorset in South West England.All changes since the re-organisation of local government following the passing of the Local Government Act 1972 are shown.
The county council announced plans in 2019 to move the county archives from County Hall to a new history centre at Mount Oswald. [18]Works of art in the building included a painting, 30.75 feet (9.37 m) long and 5.66 feet (1.73 m) high, by Norman Cornish, depicting a miners' gala, which was located in the entrance hall.