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The 1993 Dorset County Council election was held on 6 May 1993, on the same day as other county council elections. A legal challenge to the result was lodged for the Lytchett division of North Dorset. [1] Conservative candidate Commander Harry Selby-Bennett won 1,315 votes while Liberal Democrat candidate, Peter Gainsford had 1,314 votes. [2]
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 ...
Dorset County Council was the county council of Dorset in England. It was created in 1889 and abolished in 2019. ... Dorchester: Council's meeting place 1889–1955 ...
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.
County Hall in Dorchester, headquarters of Dorset County Council. Dorset County Council was a non-metropolitan county in England. Elections were first held on 23 January 1889, thereafter elections were held every three years, with all members being elected by the first past the post system of election on the same day. Later, the cycle was ...
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 ...
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.
It was part of Weymouth Rural District from 1894 to 1933, [7] and Dorchester Rural District from 1933 to 1974. [8] From 1974 to 2019, Chickerell was part of West Dorset district and returned three councillors for the district council, [9] and one councillor for the Chickerell & Chesil Bank ward of Dorset County Council.