Dorset Map

Interactive Dorset map, view the location of the English county of Dorset.

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Detailed Road Map of Dorset

Dorset Map: Above you can view a useful, interactive Dorset map, displaying the southern county located in England, United Kingdom. Making use of the control buttons on the upper left of the map you can zoom in to display a detailed road map of Dorset or pan around to view adjacent areas. Dorset borders the counties of Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire, parts of each of these counties can also be viewed on this Dorset map.

Also visible on this Dorset map are the towns and villages of Dorchester, Weymouth, Swanage, Lyme Regis, Seaton, Wareham, Poole, Bournemouth, Wimborne Minster, Blandford Forum and Sherborne.

A mostly rural county located in south-west England, Dorset has a population of around 710,000 (including Poole and Bournemouth), and an area of 981 square miles.

A county which is popular with tourists, Dorset features the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, which includes many well known locations such as Durdle Door, Lulworth Cove and Chesil Beach.

Dorset's history goes back some 10,000 years when early Mesolithic hunters established settlements along the coast. This area is rich in Neolithic and Bronze Age burial mounds and also features a number of Iron Age hillforts, such as Maiden Castle, which dates from around 600BC.

The main Roman settlement in Dorset was Dorchester, later Saxon settlementsroughly correspond to present day towns and villages, the current parishes are little changed since recorded in the Domesday Book.

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