This article is about the culture of the English county of Dorset. For the Paleo-Eskimo culture in Arctic North America, see Dorset culture.
Dorset (or archaically Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the area covered by the non-metropolitan county, which is governed by Dorset Council, together with the unitary authorities of Poole and Bournemouth. Dorset is an average sized county with an area of 2,653 square kilometres (1,024 sq mi); it borders Devon to the west, Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north-east, and Hampshire to the east. Around half of Dorset's population lives in the South East Dorset conurbation. The rest of the county is largely rural with a low population density.
Dorset has a long history of human settlement and a rich culture. The county contains 1,500 scheduled ancient monuments, including the Iron Age hillfort, Maiden Castle; and more than 12,000 listed buildings. It is famed in literature as the birthplace of Thomas Hardy and has been an inspiration to several authors including Enid Blyton who used the local landscape in many of her books. The local people have their own regional dialect which is still spoken in parts[citation needed]; and their own peculiar food, like the Dorset Knob, a hard biscuit, and Dorset Blue Vinney cheese. The county hosts many annual events and fairs including the Great Dorset Steam Fair near Blandford, purported to be the largest outdoor event in Europe; and The Dorset County Show, a celebration of Dorset's relationship with agriculture.
The Dorset was a Paleo-Eskimo culture, lasting from 500 BCE to between 1000 CE and 1500 CE, that followed the Pre-Dorset and preceded the Thule people...
governed by Dorset Council, together with the unitary authorities of Poole and Bournemouth. Dorset is an average sized county with an area of 2,653 square...
A Dorset button is a style of craft-made button originating in the English county ofDorset. Their manufacture was at a peak between 1622 and 1850, after...
Dorset (/ˈdɔːrsɪt/ DOR-sit; archaically: Dorsetshire /ˈdɔːrsɪt.ʃɪər, -ʃər/ DOR-sit-sheer, -shər) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered...
1300 BCE. After the Saqqaq culture disappeared, the Independence II cultureof northern Greenland and the Early Dorsetcultureof West Greenland emerged....
county ofDorset. The office of the Lord Lieutenant was created during the reign of Henry VIII (1509–1547), taking over the military duties of the Sheriff...
The Dorset Horn is an endangered British breed of domestic sheep. It is documented from the seventeenth century, and is highly prolific, sometimes producing...
The Dorset dialect is the traditional dialect spoken in Dorset, a county in the West Country of England. Stemming from Old West Saxon, it is preserved...
difference in the material culturesof Independence II and the contemporary Dorsetculture in southern Greenland, locally known as Dorset I. Those who lump these...
distinct nomadic tribes. Pre-Dorsetculture (c. 3200 to 850 BCE) is said to begin when the Paleo-Eskimos settled on the islands of the Canadian archipelago...
Dorsets may refer to: DorsetcultureDorset Regiment This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Dorsets. If an internal link led...
The Dorset Down is a breed of sheep native to the Dorset Downs region of England. It originated in the early 19th century from crosses of local and Hampshire...
first by peoples of the Saqqaq culture, then Dorsetculture, and then the Thule people, whose Inuit descendants form the majority of the current population...
last remnants of the Dorsetculture as they had preserved a culture and dialect distinct from the mainland Inuit. Despite their culture and local traditions...
The Dorset History Centre (formerly Dorset Record Office) is the archive service for the county ofDorset, England. It collects, stores, preserves and...
replaced people of the earlier Dorsetculture that had previously inhabited the region. The appellation "Thule" originates from the location of Thule (relocated...
consisted of several Paleo-Eskimo cultures, including the Independence cultures and Pre-Dorsetculture. The Dorsetculture (Inuktitut: Tuniit or Tunit) refers...
interaction with the culturesof Europe, the individual culturesof England, Wales and Scotland and the impact of the British Empire. The cultureof the United...
The Dorset Ooser (/ˈoʊsər/) is a wooden head that featured in the 19th-century folk cultureof Melbury Osmond, a village in the southwestern English county...
Dorset Island, or Cape Dorset Island, is one of the Canadian Arctic islands located in Hudson Strait, Nunavut, Canada. It lies off the Foxe Peninsula...
The Dorset Cursus is a Neolithic cursus monument that spans across 10 km (6¼ miles) of the chalk downland of Cranborne Chase in east Dorset, United Kingdom...
believe that the Dorsetculture developed from the Pre-Dorset somehow. Helluland, which Norse explorers described visiting in their Sagas of Icelanders, has...
REE-jiss) is a town in west Dorset, England, 25 miles (40 km) west of Dorchester and east of Exeter. Sometimes dubbed the "Pearl ofDorset", it lies by the English...
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