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Dorchester
[ dawr-ches-ter, -chuh-ster ]
noun
- a town in S Dorsetshire, in S England, on the Frome River: named Casterbridge in Thomas Hardy's novels.
Dorchester
/ ˈɔːʃɪə /
noun
- a town in S England, administrative centre of Dorset: associated with Thomas Hardy, esp as the Casterbridge of his novels. Pop: 16 171 (2001) Latin nameDurnovariaˌdjʊənəʊˈveɪrɪə
Example Sentences
The force added Ms Veisi's black Mercedes GLC 200 was located on 15 April in Dorchester Avenue, in the Penylan area.
"The first few years I was living down here, doing that drive between Dorchester and Bridport or Dorchester and Lyme Regis, at that stretch of the A35, if you're doing it at 23:00 or midnight, it's so dark, it's so deserted," he said.
Flagstones was discovered in the 1980s during the construction of the Dorchester bypass, with excavations revealing it was formed of a circular ditch made of intersecting pits.
Archaeological research by the University of Exeter and Historic England has shed new light on the origins of the prehistoric Flagstones monument located near Dorchester, Dorset, during the Neolithic period.
Dorchester Town player-manager Ashley Vickers was sent off in a 2011 Blue Square Bet South game against Havant & Waterlooville for tackling a pitch invader dressed in a mankini.
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