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South Dorset (UK Parliament Constituency)
South Dorset is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Richard Drax, a Conservative. The constituency was created as a consequence of the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, although the area covered has changed since then. History Formation The constituency was created as a consequence of the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. The Act reduced the number of MPs.in Dorset from 10 to 4 (see Redistribution of Seats Act 1885#Redistributed seats: England). It was initially proposed to name the new constituencies after existing boroughs (Shaftesbury, Dorchester, Poole and Bridport) but, following an amendment in the Commons on 14 April 1885, the names were changed to the points of the compass (North Dorset, South Dorset, East Dorset, West Dorset). The South Dorset constituency was divided into 7 polling districts. Dorchester was chosen as the place where the nomination of candidates would take place and the result would be declared. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorset (UK Parliament Constituency)
Dorset was a county constituency covering Dorset in southern England, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs), traditionally known as knights of the shire, to the House of Commons of England from 1290 until 1707, to the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom until 1832. The Great Reform Act increased its representation to three MPs with effect from the 1832 general election, and under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 the constituency was abolished for the 1885 election, and replaced by four single-member divisions: North Dorset, South Dorset, East Dorset and West Dorset. When elections were contested, the bloc vote system was used, but contests were rare. Even after the 1832 Reforms, only three of the nineteen elections before 1885 were contested; in the others, the nominated candidates were returned without a vote. Members of Parliament Before 1640 MPs 1640–1832 MPs 1832–1885 Electi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadwey
Broadwey was a former village in the northern suburbs of Weymouth, Dorset, England. It lies on the B3159 road. In 2001, Broadwey and Upwey ward had a population of 4,349. St Nicholas' Church serves the suburb, as did Broadwey Methodist Church Broadwey Methodist Church is a Methodist Church of Great Britain, Methodist church in Broadwey, Weymouth, Dorset, Weymouth, Dorset, England. It was built in 1928 and was active as part of the Dorset South & West Methodist Circuit until 2021. Hist ... until 2021. References External links Census data Villages in Dorset Geography of Weymouth, Dorset {{Dorset-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winterborne Came
Winterborne Came is a small dispersed settlement and civil parish in the county of Dorset in England, situated in the west of the county, approximately south-east of the county town Dorchester. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the parish population was 40. Winterborne Came derives its name from the seasonal stream ('winterborne') by which it is sited, and from the town of Caen in France, as it was once owned by the Abbey of St. Stephen there. The parish consists of Came House, built in 1754 in the Palladian style,Gant, R., ''Dorset Villages'', Hale 1980, p178 the nearby Perpendicular St. Peter's Church, a couple of farms, and an old rectory on the Dorchester to Wareham road, where for 25 years the Dorset dialect poet William Barnes William Barnes (22 February 1801 – 7 October 1886) was an English polymath, writer, poet, philologist, priest, mathematician, engraving artist and inventor. He wrote over 800 poems, some in Dorset dialect, and much other wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitcombe, Dorset
Whitcombe is a small village and civil parish in the Dorset unitary authority area of Dorset, England, situated southeast of Dorchester. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the population of the parish is 20. Whitcombe village is next to the A352 main road between Broadmayne and Dorchester, between the parishes of West Knighton and Broadmayne to the east, West Stafford to the north, and Winterborne Came to the west. Whitcombe does not form an ecclesiastical parish, although Whitcombe Church has registers dating from 1762. The earlier registers were destroyed in a fire. The church, now redundant, is in a "modest but perfect location" according to Pevsner. In the surrounding area there are a number of prehistoric earthworks. Whitcombe was originally recorded as Widecome, with a land measurement of two hides. King Athelstan gave it to the Milton Abbey. At the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, its ownership passed to the King. Around 1600, it was sold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Stafford
West Stafford is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in southwest Dorset, England, situated in the River Frome, Dorset, Frome valley east of Dorchester, Dorset, Dorchester. In the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census the parish had a population of 291. The village contains the public house 'The Wise Man Inn', and St Andrew's Church. The river Winterbourne runs beside the village and 2 miles south lies the village of West Knighton, Dorset, West Knighton. Thomas Hardy, when training as an architect, assisted in the design of Talbothays Lodge and the cottages opposite. The village is also accepted as the setting for part of Hardy's novel ''Tess or the D'Urbevilles'', during the period when Tess works at the Talbothays Dairy. Reginald Bosworth Smith, schoolmaster, author and List of Presidents of the Oxford Union, President of the Oxford Union, was born in West Stafford on 28 June 1839. His father, Reginald Southwell Smith, was the fourth son of Smith-Marriott ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Knighton, Dorset
West Knighton is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated southeast of the county town Dorchester. It has an 11th-century church and a village pub. In the 2011 census the civil parish had a population of 375. The village name derives from the Old English ''cniht'' and ''tūn'', meaning the village or farmstead of the young men or retainers. At Little Mayne Farm southwest of the village is the site of a deserted medieval village, which was recorded in the Domesday Book as Maine and in 1201 was known as Parva Maene. West Knighton parish historically developed out of the amalgamation of four medieval settlements within the ancient hundred of Cullifordtree: the existing main village, the previously mentioned Parva Maene, another medieval settlement at Friarmayne to the south—also deserted and now within neighbouring Broadmayne Broadmayne is a village in the English county of Dorset. It lies two miles south-east of the county town Dorchester. The A352 main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stratton, Dorset
Stratton is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated in the Frome valley about north-west of Dorchester. The parish includes the hamlets of Grimstone, Ash Hill and Wrackleford which, like the village, lie on or near the A37 trunk road. Ash Hill is a small estate east of the village near the railway. Wrackleford is a group of houses further east and centred about Wrackleford House and including Higher Wrackleford and Lower Wrackleford. In addition there are a number of isolated farms and houses including a few in an area called Langford near the Sydling Water in the north-west part of the parish. The name Stratton means 'Farm on the Street'. The Street referred to the Roman road from Durnovaria (Dorchester) to Lindinis (Ilchester) which passes through the village. The parish has an area of about . Most of this is agricultural land lying north of the village where the land rises from about to about . Stratton parish is bounded by the parishes of Bradford Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fordington, Dorset
Fordington is a part of the town of Dorchester, Dorset; originally a separate village, it has now become a suburb. Taking its name from a ford across the River Frome, it grew up around the church of St. George (where Henry Moule was once Vicar), though the parish was much larger and surrounded Dorchester on three sides. It was part of the liberty of Fordington. The will of Alfred the Great is said to make an early reference to Saint George of England, in the context of the church of Fordington, Dorset. Certainly at Fordington a stone over the south door records the miraculous appearance of St George to lead crusaders into battle. At West Fordington is St Mary's Church, built in 1911–12 to the designs of Charles Ponting Charles Edwin Ponting, F.S.A., (1850–1932) was a Gothic Revival architect who practised in Marlborough, Wiltshire. Career Ponting began his architectural career in 1864 in the office of the architect Samuel Overton. He was agent for Meux br .... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charminster
Charminster is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England, situated on the River Cerne and A352 road north of the county town Dorchester. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 2,940 and also contains the hamlet of Charlton Down. The village name derives from the River Cerne and the small 'minster' church of St Mary, resulting in "Cerneminster" (recorded in 1223), which eventually evolved into Charminster. The village, which includes Wolfeton House, was the place of origin of Richard Norman and family, one of the Planters of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in America, who arrived there in ca. 1626. Scientist Margaret Bastock died in the village in 1982, aged 62. Charminster is in the Charminster and Cerne Valley electoral ward, which stretches from the northern outskirts of Dorchester through Cerne Abbas to Minterne Magna. The total population of this ward at the 2011 census was 4,768. Facilities As a relatively large village Charminster has an abunda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradford Peverell
Bradford Peverell is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, north-west of the county town Dorchester. It is sited by the south bank of the River Frome, among low chalk hills on the dip slope of the Dorset Downs. The A37 road between Dorchester and Yeovil passes to the north of the village on the other side of the river's water meadows. In the 2011 census the population of the parish (which includes the hamlet of Muckleford to the north-west) was 370. Bradford Peverell is the birthplace of the historian John Hutchins, who was born here in 1698. His work on the history of the county, ''History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset'', was published in 1774. In the 1st century a Roman aqueduct ran through where the village is now sited; it followed a line from Notton, a few miles upstream, to Dorchester, which then was the Roman town of Durnovaria. The remaining sections of the aqueduct are a scheduled monument. In 1850 the parish church was rebuilt in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stinsford
Stinsford is a village and civil parish in southwest Dorset, England, about east of Dorchester. The parish includes the settlements of Higher and Lower Bockhampton. The name Stinsford may derive from , Old English for a limited area of pasture. In the 2011 United Kingdom census, the parish had a population of 334. The parish has five large country houses - Birkin House, Frome House, Kingston Maurward House, the Elizabethan era Old Manor House and Stinsford House. Much of the land in the parish is occupied by Kingston Maurward College, a further education college. St Michael's Church There has been worship at the site since at least Norman times, but the only remaining parts of the earliest structure are the sculpture of St Michael, inside the west wall of the south aisle, and the restored Purbeck Marble font. St Michael's was the local church of novelist and poet Thomas Hardy and he was baptised here. Stinsford is the original 'Mellstock' of Hardy's novels ''Under the Greenw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isle Of Portland
An isle is an island, land surrounded by water. The term is very common in British English. However, there is no clear agreement on what makes an island an isle or its difference, so they are considered synonyms. Isle may refer to: Geography * Isle (river), a river in France * Isle, Haute-Vienne, a commune of the Haute-Vienne ''département'' in France * Isle, Minnesota, a small city in the United States * River Isle, a river in England Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment'' (or ''ISLE''), a journal published by Oxford University Press for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment *''The Isle'', 2017 film with Conleth Hill * ''The Isle'', a 2000 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-duk * ''Isle'' (album) Other uses * International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE), a learned society of linguists See also * Aisle An aisle is, in general, a space for walking with rows of non-walking spaces o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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