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'Blandford Cartwheel' type of Dorset button, made in red and white yarn
'Blandford Cartwheel' button

A Dorset button is a style of craft-made button originating in the English county of Dorset. Their manufacture was at a peak between 1622 and 1850, after which they were overtaken by machine-made buttons from factories in the developing industries of Birmingham and other growing cities.

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Dorset button

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A Dorset button is a style of craft-made button originating in the English county of Dorset. Their manufacture was at a peak between 1622 and 1850, after...

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Button

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called a form. Dorset buttons, handmade from the 17th century to 1750, and Death head buttons are of this type. The size of the button depends on its...

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Glossary of Dorset dialect words

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are unique to the Dorset dialect, spoken in Dorset in the West Country of England. Wiktionary has a category on Dorset English. Dorset dialect Newton (2014)...

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Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance

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The Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance is a registered charity, which uses a helicopter to provide an air ambulance service to the English counties of Dorset...

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Nunavut

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Pre-Dorset, a diverse Paleo-Eskimo culture that migrated eastward from the Bering Strait region. The Pre-Dorset culture was succeeded by the Dorset culture...

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Winterborne Kingston

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revealed here in ploughed fields. Dorset historically had many cottage industries related to the clothing trade. Button making (buttony) developed in the...

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Springwatch

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reasons". Radio Times. "24 Things to look forward to in Dorset for 2024 | Visit Dorset". www.visit-dorset.com. 27 December 2023. Gantzer, Olivia (16 January...

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Blandford Forum

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Blandford Forum (/ˈblænfərd/ BLAN-fərd) is a market town in Dorset, England, by the River Stour 13 miles (21 kilometres) northwest of Poole. It had a population...

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Emilia Fox

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was educated at the independent Bryanston School near Blandford Forum, Dorset, where she played the cello, and at St Catherine's College, Oxford, where...

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Lloyds Bank

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Halifax and Wolverhampton. The origins of Lloyds Bank date from 1765, when button maker John Taylor and Quaker iron producer and dealer Sampson Lloyd set...

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Dilly Court

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and had multiple titles on The Sunday Times Bestseller List including The Button Box, which reached #2 in 2017. In 2023, her novel Dolly's Dream reached...

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Baffin Island

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Island has been inhabited for over 3,000 years, first by the pre-Dorset, followed by the Dorset, and then by the Thule people, ancestors of the Inuit, who have...

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Thomas Burberry

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throughout the world. Burberry retired to Abbot's Court near Weymouth, Dorset in 1917. He used his excess time to focus on religious and humanitarian...

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Button Islands

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The Button Islands are located in the Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. They are surrounded by Ungava Bay, Hudson Strait, Davis Strait, and...

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PBO

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the Isle of Portland, in Dorset, UK Pixel buffer objects, used for asynchronous pixel transfer operations in OpenGL Push Button Objects, a producer of experimental...

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RAF Tarrant Rushton

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station near the village of Tarrant Rushton east of Blandford Forum in Dorset, England from 1943 to 1947. It was used for glider operations during World...

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Luke Foxe

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south along the west shore to Port Nelson, Manitoba where he found Thomas Button's winter camp of 18 years before, turned north-east, met Thomas James on...

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Dorset Island

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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...

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2021 Extreme E Championship

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due to take place in Dorset, was revealed in October as the new season finale. Lac Rose Al-'Ula Kangerlussuaq Sardinia Dorset The following events were...

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2024 New Year Honours

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Kushti Bok and Vice-Chair, Dorset Council Gypsy Traveller Forum. For services to the Gypsy and Traveller Community in Dorset. William Archibald Bingham...

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Haircut One Hundred

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2004, 2009–2013, 2023–) Patrick Hunt (born 10 April 1959, in Shaftesbury, Dorset) – drums (1980) Phil Smith (born 1 May 1959, Redbridge, Essex) – saxophone...

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List of unusual deaths

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incidents are very rare, says John Huston of the Abbotsbury Swannery in Dorset, where there are 1,000 swans but no recorded attacks on humans in the colony's...

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Chris Chibnall

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unveiled". The Guardian. London. "EXCLUSIVE: Broadchurch 2 producer thanks West Dorset residents for their support during filming". Bournemouth Echo. 16 October...

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BBC South West

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English Region serving Cornwall, Devon, Isles of Scilly, West Somerset, West Dorset and Channel Islands. BBC South West's television service (broadcast on BBC...

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