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Dorset (county) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 50 45 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 50.7500 decimal degrees |
| Long: 002 20 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -2.3333 decimal degrees |
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Note: Settled by Neolithic peoples from France 2000 BCE; evidence of Beaker people 1800 BCE and Romans until 5th century; formed core of Saxon kingdom of Wessex ca. 495 and called Wessex in Thomas Hardy novels; site of Tolpuddle martyrs cry for organized labor in the 19th century. |
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| Dorset (preferred,C,V,English,U)
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| Dorsetshire (C,V,English,U)
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| DOR (C,V)
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| County of Dorset (NA,V,O,English,U)
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| Dorset, County of (NA,V,English,U)
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| UKD6 (NA,V,FIPS)
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Dorset (county) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| county (preferred, C) |
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| second level subdivision (C) |
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| agricultural land (C) |
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| first level subdivision (C) |
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