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Dorper ram - South Africa Australian mob of white Dorpers. The Dorper is a South African breed of domestic sheep developed by crossing Dorset Horn and the Blackhead Persian sheep. The breed was created through the efforts of the South African Department of Agriculture to breed a meat sheep suitable to the more arid regions of the country. It is ...
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 .
Young flock of ewe lambs Flock in Mudgegonga, Victoria, Australia. The Australian White is an Australian breed of meat sheep. It derives from selective breeding of White Dorper, Van Rooy, Poll Dorset and Texel sheep, with the aim of creating a large white sheep suited to Australian conditions, and with a self-shedding hair coat.
It is mainly within the county of Dorset, extending cross border into Hampshire. Essentially, the function of the belt is to control development expansion in the South East Dorset conurbation and outlying towns and villages. [1] It is managed by local planning authorities on guidance from central government.
Purbeck was a local government district in Dorset, England. The district was named after the Isle of Purbeck , a peninsula that forms a large proportion of the district's area. However, it extended significantly further north and west than the traditional boundary of the Isle of Purbeck which is the River Frome .
Dorset (/ ˈ d ɔːr s ɪ t / DOR-sit; archaically: Dorsetshire / ˈ d ɔːr s ɪ t. ʃ ɪər,-ʃ ər / DOR-sit-sheer, -shər) is a ceremonial county in South West England.It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north and the north-east, Hampshire to the east, the Isle of Wight across the Solent to the south-east, the English Channel to the south, and Devon to the west.
Bournemouth and Poole had both been unitary authorities since 1997, whilst Christchurch was a lower tier district council, with Dorset County Council providing county-level services in that borough. The way the changes were implemented was to create a new non-metropolitan district and a non-metropolitan county both called Bournemouth ...
This is a list of settlements in Dorset by population based on the results of the 2011 census. The next United Kingdom census will take place in 2021 . In 2011, there were 18 built-up area subdivisions with 5,000 or more inhabitants in Dorset , shown in the table below, along with the slightly smaller Lyme Regis .