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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 ...
Dorchester is a village in Clark and Marathon counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, along the 45th parallel. It is part of the Wausau, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 876 at the 2010 census. [6] Of this, 871 were in Clark County, and only 5 were in Marathon County.
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 ...
Dorset County Council was the county council of Dorset in England. It was created in 1889 and abolished in 2019. Throughout its existence, the council was based in Dorchester. Bournemouth and Poole were made independent from the county council in 1997 when their councils became unitary authorities.
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 ...
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.
Chickerell electoral ward elects 2 members to Dorset Council. [5] For elections to the UK Parliament, Chickerell is in the South Dorset parliamentary constituency. Historically, Chickerell was in Culliford Tree Hundred. [6] It was part of Weymouth Rural District from 1894 to 1933, [7] and Dorchester Rural District from 1933 to 1974. [8]
Shire Hall is an 18th-century courthouse in Dorchester, Dorset. The building was the centre of law, order and government, and served as the county hall for Dorset until 1955. It has been Grade I listed since 1950. [1] In 2018, the hall opened as the Shire Hall Historic Courthouse Museum. [2]