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Dorset (/ ˈ d ɔːr s ɪ t / DOR-sit; archaically: Dorsetshire / ˈ d ɔːr s ɪ t. ʃ ɪər,-ʃ ər / DOR-sit-sheer, -shər) is a ceremonial county in South West England.It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north and the north-east, Hampshire to the east, the Isle of Wight across the Solent to the south-east, the English Channel to the south, and Devon to the west.
However, the urbanised area spreads into the area of the Dorset unitary authority and into the New Forest District as far east as Barton on Sea. There are a number of satellite towns peripheral to the urban centres, including (listed clockwise) Wareham, Verwood, and Ringwood (Hampshire). The urban area is generally surrounded by a green belt.
The South Hampshire built-up area in the south-east of the county has a population of 855,569 and contains the cities of Southampton (269,781) and Portsmouth (208,100). In the north-east, the Farnborough / Aldershot conurbation extends into Berkshire and Surrey and has a population of 252,937.
Dorset shown within England. Dorset is a county located in the middle of the south coast of England.It lies between the latitudes 50.512°N and 51.081°N and the longitudes 1.682°W and 2.958°W, and occupies an area of 2,653 km 2 (1,024 sq mi).
The BH postcode area, also known as the Bournemouth postcode area, [2] is a group of 26 postcode districts in southern England, within eleven post towns.These cover east Dorset (including Bournemouth, Poole, Broadstone, Christchurch, Ferndown, Swanage, Verwood, Wareham and Wimborne) and part of south-west Hampshire (including New Milton and Ringwood).
Bournemouth and Christchurch were historically part of the county of Hampshire, while Poole was historically a part of Dorset and was a county corporate. By the mid-20th century, the towns had begun to coalesce as a conurbation , and in the Local Government Act 1972 the three areas were brought together under the non-metropolitan county of ...
This is a list of settlements in the county of Hampshire, England.Places highlighted in bold type are towns or cities.. The Isle of Wight was in Hampshire until 1890. [a] Bournemouth and adjacent parishes in the far west [b] were transferred to the ceremonial and administrative county of Dorset in 1974.
First created in 1958 (Hampshire) [2] and 1980 (Dorset), [3] the belt takes up 36,000 hectares (360 km 2; 140 sq mi), 0.3% of the total land area of England (2017). [4] [5] Much of this is within the Dorset unitary authority area, with smaller portions within Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.