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Dorset Council is responsible for most of the local government services such as planning decisions and building control, local roads, council housing, markets and fairs, environmental health, refuse collection and recycling, education, social services, public transport, police and fire services, Trading Standards, waste disposal and strategic ...
Pages in category "Grade II listed parks and gardens in Dorset" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Non-metropolitan districts are subdivisions of English non-metropolitan counties which have a two-tier structure of local government. [2] Two-tier non-metropolitan counties have a county council and several districts, each with a borough or district council. In these cases local government functions are divided between county and district ...
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The districts of Dorset were Weymouth and Portland, West Dorset, North Dorset, Purbeck, East Dorset, Christchurch, and the unitary authorities Bournemouth and Poole. As there are 508 Grade II* listed buildings in the county they have been split into separate lists for each former district.
Grade II* listed parks and gardens in Dorset (11 P) Pages in category "Parks and open spaces in Dorset" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
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 ...
John Speed used Puddletown for his county map of 1610. [2] In 1848 Samuel Lewis used Piddletown in A Topographical Dictionary of England. [3] In 1906 Sir Frederick Treves used Puddletown in Highways & Byways in Dorset—describing it as "the Town on the River Puddle" and a "curiously named place". [4] In 1946 Piddletown was the name on voters ...