He lives just outside the Dorset town of Shaftesbury.

Biographers of the 19th century believed he was from the Dorset town of Dorchester because of his significant later association with people from that place.

This eight-part drama set in the fictional Dorset town of Broadchurch follows the reaction of a tight-knit community when a young boy is killed under suspicious circumstances.

Black Ven is situated between the Dorset towns of Charmouth and Lyme Regis.

There are also torchlight parades held in Dorset towns in the UK in August.

The Collectors is a British television drama about Her Majesty's Customs and Excise in the fictional Dorset town of Wrelling.

Seventy years later an even more detailed survey of another Dorset town was made.

In the small Dorset town of Corfe Castle in 1795 the earnings of 129 females in poor households were listed.

Bearwood is a suburb of the Dorset town of Poole in the UK.

Some of the Navy's best rope, particularly hemp, came from the Dorset town of Bridport, and hemp was always used for the hangman's noose.