Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Eldridge Pope brewery was founded by Charles and Sarah Eldridge in 1833, and the company built the Green Dragon Brewery in Dorchester in 1837. Soon afterwards, John Allen Pope joined the partnership and production moved to the Mariners Brewery, still visible in the town's High West Street. [6]
Dorchester (/ ˈ d ɔːr tʃ ɛ s t ər / DOR-ches-tər) is the county town of Dorset, England.It is situated between Poole and Bridport on the A35 trunk route. A historic market town, Dorchester is on the banks of the River Frome to the south of the Dorset Downs and north of the South Dorset Ridgeway that separates the area from Weymouth, 7 miles (11 km) to the south.
The King's Arms, Dorchester, viewed from the east. The King's Arms is a large pub and hotel on High East Street, Dorchester, Dorset. [1] [2] [3] It is grade II* listed.[4] [5] The Buildings of England describes its frontage as a "fine expansive early [nineteenth-century] composition", with an attached assembly room, [6] although the hotel is older than this. [7]
After Dorchester became a municipal borough in 1835, [4] civic leaders decided to replace the old town hall with a new structure. [1] The new building was designed by Benjamin Ferrey in the Gothic Revival style, built by Samuel Slade in brown Broadmayne bricks with stone dressings and was completed in 1848. [1]
Anton Mosimann OBE DL (born 23 February 1947) is a Swiss chef and restaurateur who was Maitre Chef des Cuisines at the Dorchester Hotel for thirteen years, during which time its restaurant achieved a rating of two stars in the Michelin Guide. After leaving The Dorchester Mosimann took over a private dining club called The Belfrey and created ...
The Mary Wee Pub, successor to Barry’s Old School Irish at 2 W. Main St., Webster, will open before Thanksgiving, likely on Nov. 25, proprietor Mark Petzing said.
The Dorchester Community Church was built in 1828, and the (now former) town hall in 1844, on the site of the town's first (1828) town hall. [2] The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985; [ 1 ] the church was also separately listed in 1980.
Godmanstone (or Godmanston [2]) is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) north of the county town Dorchester. Its name means Godman's Farm [2] and it is sited by the River Cerne amongst chalk hills of the Dorset Downs.