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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 ...
Dorset County Council was the county council of Dorset in England. It was created in 1889 and abolished in 2019. ... Shire Hall, Dorchester: Council's meeting place ...
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]
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.
Dorset Council is the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Dorset in England. It is a unitary authority , being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council .
Dorset Council awards £486,000 to 28 organisations across the county over the next three years.
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.