West Dorset

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West Dorset District
West Dorset
Location in Dorset
status District
region South West England
Administration County Dorset
Administrative headquarters Dorchester
surface 1081.48 km²
Residents 97,100
ONS code 19UH

West Dorset was a district in the county of Dorset in England until 2019 . The administrative seat was the city of Dorchester . Neighboring were North Dorset and Purbeck in the east and Weymouth and Portland in the south, all of which were part of Dorset, as well as East Devon in the west and South Somerset in the north. The south-west and south-east borders formed the coast of the English Channel .

The district was formed on April 1, 1974 and resulted from the merger of the boroughs Bridport, Dorchester and Lyme Regis, the Urban District Sherborne and the Rural Districts Beaminster, Bridport, Dorchester and Sherborne. On April 1, 2019, the district became part of the new Dorset Unitary Authority .

structure

At the local level, West Dorset is divided into a total of 138 units:

  • 6 towns (Town)
  • 38 parishes ( Civil Parish ) with their own parish council (Council)
  • 76 congregations, which have a common council with other congregations, in a total of 24 groups
  • 18 municipalities without council

In detail, these were, with the number of inhabitants (2013, official estimate):

Towns:

  1. Beaminster (3100)
  2. Bridport (8280)
  3. Chickerell (5510)
  4. Dorchester (19480)
  5. Lyme Regis (3600)
  6. Sherborne (9650)

CP with its own council:

  1. Allington (940)
  2. Bishop's Caundle (390)
  3. Bothenhampton (2100)
  4. Bradford Abbas (880)
  5. Bradford Peverell (380)
  6. Bradpole (2330)
  7. Broadmayne (1250)
  8. Buckland Newton (610)
  9. Burton Bradstock (930)
  10. Charminster (2980)
  11. Charmouth (1310)
  12. Cheselbourne (310)
  13. Chideock (550)
  14. Crossways (2360)
  15. Dewlish (270)
  16. Evershot (210)
  17. Folke (270)
  18. Frampton (510)
  19. Holwell (350)
  20. Leigh (470)
  21. Litton Cheney (370)
  22. Loders (510)
  23. Maiden Newton (1110)
  24. Melbury Osmond (130)
  25. Minterne Magna (200)
  26. Mosterton (640)
  27. Netherbury (1270)
  28. Osmington (610)
  29. Owermoigne (510)
  30. Purse Caundle (90)
  31. Shipton Gorge (350)
  32. Stinsford (300)
  33. Stratton (610)
  34. Sydling St. Nicholas (450)
  35. Symondsbury (1010)
  36. Thorncombe (680)
  37. Great Porcorum (270)
  38. Winterborne St Martin (780)

CP without Council:

  1. Askerswell (160)
  2. Catherston Leweston (30)
  3. Caundle Marsh (70)
  4. Chilcombe (10)
  5. Clifton Maybank (40)
  6. Frome Vauchurch (160)
  7. Haydon (30)
  8. Hooke (170)
  9. Littlebredy (50)
  10. Mapperton (60)
  11. Melbury Bubb (40)
  12. Melbury Sampford (30)
  13. Melcombe Horsey (140)
  14. North Wootton (50)
  15. Poxwell (30)
  16. Rampisham (110)
  17. Warm well (80)
  18. Wraxall (40)

CP with joint council:

  • Broadwindsor
  1. Broadwindsor (1320)
  2. Burstock (120)
  3. Seaborough (60)
  • Cam Vale
  1. Holnest (220)
  2. Leweston (120)
  3. Lillington (50)
  4. Longburton (460)
  • Cerne Valley
  1. Cerne Abbas (820)
  2. Godmanstone (130)
  3. Nether Cerne (20)
  4. Up Cerne (10)
  • Char Valley
  1. Stanton St Gabriel (110)
  2. Whitchurch Canonicorum (640)
  3. Wooton Fitzpaine (360)
  • Chesil Bank
  1. Abbotsbury (480)
  2. Fleet (60)
  3. Langton Herring (120)
  4. Portesham (670)
  • Chetnole and Stockwood
  1. Chetnole (330)
  2. Stockwood (30)
  • Comptons, Toller and Wynford
  1. Compton Valance (50)
  2. Great Fratrum (10)
  3. West Compton (20)
  4. Wynford Eagle (60)
  • Corscombe, Halstock and District
  1. Corscombe (490)
  2. East Chelborough (50)
  3. Neck stick (510)
  4. West Chelborough (40)
  • Frome Valley
  1. Cattistock (430)
  2. Chilfrome (40)
  3. Frome St Quintin (150)
  • High stoy
  1. Batcombe (120)
  2. Hermitage (70)
  3. Hilfield (50)
  • Kingston Russell and Long Bredy
  1. Kingston Russell 30
  2. Long Bredy (220)
  • Knightsford
  1. Tincleton (150)
  2. West Knighton (390)
  3. West Stafford (280)
  4. Woodsford (80)

CP with joint council:

  • Parrett and Ax
  1. Chedington (130)
  2. South Perrott (130)
  • Piddle Valley
  1. Alton Pancras (160)
  2. Piddlehinton (410)
  3. Piddletrenthide (660)
  • Powerstock and North Porton
  1. Powerstock (290)
  2. North Poorton (20)
  • Puddletown Area
  1. Athelhampton (30)
  2. Burleston (20)
  3. Puddletown (1450)
  4. Tolpuddle (420)
  • Punch and Swyre
  1. Point (460)
  2. Swyre (90)
  • Queen Thorne
  1. Nether Compton (330)
  2. Over Compton (190)
  3. Sandford Orcas (170)
  4. Trent (300)
  • Thornhackett
  1. Beer Hackett (100)
  2. Thornford (830)
  • Upper Marshwood Vale
  1. Bettiscombe (50)
  2. Marshwood (310)
  3. Pilsdon (50)
  4. Stoke Abbott (190)
  • Winterborne Farringdon
  1. Bincombe (510)
  2. Whitcombe (20)
  3. Winterborne Came (40)
  4. Winterborne Herringston (20)
  5. Winterborne Monkton (50)
  • Winterbourne Abbas and Steepleton
  1. Winterbourne Abbas (320)
  2. Winterbourne Steepleton (270)
  • Yeo Head
  1. Castleton (80)
  2. Goathill (10)
  3. Oborne (120)
  4. Poyntington (130)
  • Yetminster and Ryme Intrinseca
  1. Ryme Intrinseca (110)
  2. Yetminster (1030)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Parish and town councils in West Dorset on the county government website, accessed January 15, 2016
  2. ↑ Parish Population Data on the county government website, accessed January 15, 2016.

Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′  N , 2 ° 36 ′  W