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The Municipal Buildings, also known as the Corn Exchange and Town Hall, are located on the north side of High East Street in Dorchester, Dorset, England. The structure, which incorporates the meeting place of Dorchester Town Council and an arts and community venue, is a Grade II* listed building .
Poundbury has been built according to the principles of Charles III, who is known for holding strong views challenging post-war trends in town planning that were suburban in character. Since starting in 1993, the town has received both criticism and praise from architects and design critics.
Dorchester (/ ˈ d ɔːr tʃ ɛ s t ər / DOR-ches-tər) is the county town of Dorset, England.It is situated between Poole and Bridport on the A35 trunk route. A historic market town, Dorchester is on the banks of the River Frome to the south of the Dorset Downs and north of the South Dorset Ridgeway that separates the area from Weymouth, 7 miles (11 km) to the south.
Originally, Dorchester was a separate town, founded by Puritans who emigrated in 1630 from Dorchester, Dorset, England, to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This dissolved municipality , Boston's largest neighborhood by far, [ 3 ] is often divided by city planners in order to create two planning areas roughly equivalent in size and population to ...
The Borough Gardens is a public open space in Dorchester, in Dorset, England, It was opened in 1896, and is listed Grade II in Historic England's Register of Parks and Gardens. [1] The gardens are owned and maintained by Dorchester Town Council.
The Romans built an aqueduct to supply the town with water, traces remain at nearby Whitfield Farm and approaching Poundbury tunnel on the Dorchester - Yeovil railway. Near the town centre is Maumbury Rings, an ancient British earthwork converted by the Romans for use as an amphitheatre, and to the north west is Poundbury Hill, another pre ...
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 ...
Dorchester Rural District [7] West Dorset: Dewlish: 284 [68] 8.61 Dorchester Rural District [7] West Dorset: Dorchester (town) 19,060 [69] 7.12 Dorchester Municipal Borough [70] West Dorset: Durweston: 398 [71] 7.48 Blandford Rural District [14] North Dorset: East Chelborough: Beaminster Rural District [23] West Dorset: East Holme: Wareham and ...