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Dorset

Dorset (not Dorsetshire) is a county in the southwest of England. The county town is Dorchester[?].

The seaside resort of Bournemouth and the town of Poole cover the southeast of the county, which is otherwise mostly rural.

Blandford St. Mary[?] is home to the Badger brewery of Hall & Woodhouse, whilst Weymouth[?] is a seaside resort town with royal links. Jutting out into the English Channel is Portland Bill[?].

Dorset is famed in literature for being the native county of Thomas Hardy and many of the places he describes in his novels in the fictional Wessex are in Dorset.

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Places of interest



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