Ads
related to: woodworking vacancies dorset area
Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Winterborne Zelston is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England. [1] It is situated in a winterbourne valley on the A31 road eight miles (thirteen kilometres) south of Blandford Forum and 10 mi (16 km) northwest of Poole. The parish had a population of 141 in 2001. [2] In 2013 the estimated population of the civil parish was 90. [3]
Dorset was the birthplace of the trade union movement, with the Tolpuddle Martyrs hailing from the county. Being a coastal county, smuggling has been a dominant part of the Dorset economy with the Battle of Mudeford being fought in 1784 at Mudeford Quay, Mudeford, Christchurch. Fleet and Kinson were also home to smugglers. [1]
A visitor centre and car park occupy a hillside at Lulworth Cove, a popular attraction in the Dorset National Landscape. The coast and countryside in the National Landscape area are valued for its recreational amenity value, with the Dorset National Landscape Partnership recognising pressure from a population of 2.15 million people who live within 40 miles of the National Landscape. [1]
At the lower tier of local government, Chickerell is a civil parish.Its parish council is Chickerell Town Council, [3] which has ten councillors elected from two wards. [4]At the upper tier, Chickerell is in the Dorset unitary authority.
Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the parish population is 80. [9] The 2001 Census recorded the parish's population as 67. [10] In the 2011 census figures for Woodsford parish have been combined with those of neighbouring Tincleton parish; the population in this combined area was 236.
Dorset 50°53′46″N 2°25′26″W / 50.896°N 2.424°W / 50.896; Woodbridge is a hamlet in the civil parish of Fontmell Magna , in Dorset , England.
Ads
related to: woodworking vacancies dorset area