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At the northern entrance to the village is the 19th-century development of Victoria Square, which forms a roundabout on the main A354 road onto the island. As with the other villages and settlements on Portland, Chiswell was designated as a conservation area as part of Underhill in 1976, as it is a place of special architectural and historic ...
Dorset is an unincorporated community in Powhatan County, ... References. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Dorset, Virginia
C. Canford Magna; Cann, Dorset; Castleton, Dorset; Castletown, Dorset; Catherston Leweston; Cattistock; Caundle Marsh; Cerne Abbas; Chalbury; Chaldon Herring; Charborough
Bronze Age barrows including Clandon Barrow surround the village, and Maiden Castle hillfort is nearby. The stream running through the village is a winterbourne though rarely dries out in the summer now. Winterborne St Martin is in the UK Weather Records for the Highest 24-hour total [a] rainfall, which was recorded in the village on 18 July ...
Worth Matravers (/ m ə ˈ t r æ v ər z /) is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset.The village is situated on the cliffs west of Swanage.It comprises limestone cottages and farm houses and is built around a pond, which is a regular feature on postcards of the Isle of Purbeck.
Durweston (/ d ər ˈ w ɛ s t ən / dər-WES-tən) is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It lies two miles (three kilometres) northwest of the town of Blandford Forum. It is sited by the River Stour at the point where it flows out of the Blackmore Vale through a steep, narrow gap between the Dorset Downs and Cranborne ...
The Dorset Village Historic District encompasses a significant portion of the village center of Dorset, Vermont.Centered at the junction of Church Street, Kent Hill Road, and Vermont Route 30, the village was developed between the late 18th and early 20th centuries, and has a number of well-preserved unusual features, including sidewalks of marble from local quarries.
The village name derives from the Old English wīc, meaning "dairy farm". [1] The village is mentioned in the ministers' accounts for the Manor of Christchurch in 1301, at which point the king (as Lord of the Manor) could claim the second-best sheep from every customary fold in Wick (there being at that time six folds), while the tenants in return were allowed pasture in the "demesne arable ...