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Dorchester (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 51 38 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 51.6333 decimal degrees |
| Long: 001 10 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -1.1667 decimal degrees |
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Note: Small village once an Iron Age settlement, later an important Roman station and Saxon town. Cathedral city of Wessex 634-705 and of Mercia 869-1072. 13th-century abbey church here shows transition from Norman to Decorated style. |
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| Dorchester (preferred,C,V,English,U)
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| Dorchester-on-Thames (C,V)
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| Dorchecestre (H,V)
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| Dorchestre (H,V)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
| Dorcic (H,V)
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............ | probably meaning "a bright, splendid place," to which the Old English "ceaster" ("Roman station") was added |
| Dorciccaestrae (H,V)
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| Dorkecestr (H,V)
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| Dorkecestre (H,V)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
| Dorocine (H,V)
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............ | Roman camp name |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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was a Roman station |
| town (C) |
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| episcopal see (H) |
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from 7th-11th century |
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