Dorchester

Summary

Dorchester is a county town^[1]. Dorchester draws 384 Wikipedia views per month (county_town category, ranking #16 of 22).^[2]

Key Facts

• Dorchester is located in Dorset^[3].
• Dorchester is in the country of United Kingdom^[4].
• Dorchester's image is recorded as Town Pump and Corn Exchange - Dorchester.jpg^[5].
• Dorchester's instance of is recorded as county town^[6].
• Dorchester's instance of is recorded as civil parish^[7].
• Dorchester's instance of is recorded as market town^[8].
• Dorchester's coat of arms image is recorded as Arms of Dorchester.svg^[9].
• Dorchester's twinned administrative body is recorded as Bayeux^[10].
• Dorchester's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 140740877^[11].
• Dorchester's GND ID is recorded as 4278471-2^[12].
• Dorchester's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n82070365^[13].
• Dorchester's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12385636g^[14].
• Dorchester's postal code is recorded as DT1^[15].
• Dorchester's Commons category is recorded as Dorchester, Dorset^[16].
• Dorchester's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 5669393^[17].
• Dorchester's located in time zone is recorded as UTC±00:00^[18].
• Dorchester's pronunciation audio is recorded as Dorchester en gb.ogg^[19].
• Dorchester's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Dorchester.wav^[20].
• Dorchester's local dialing code is recorded as 01305^[21].
• Dorchester's OS grid reference is recorded as SY690906^[22].
• Dorchester's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 50.710833333333, 'lon': -2.4397222222222}^[23].
• Dorchester's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01nvc_^[24].
• Dorchester's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ge753055^[25].
• Dorchester's authority is recorded as Dorchester Town Council^[26].
• Dorchester's GSS code is recorded as E04003533^[27].

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Brands and Namesakes

Things named for Dorchester include Dorchester Town F.C.^[28], an association football club^[29], in United Kingdom^[30], founded in 1880^[31], headquartered in Dorchester^[32] and 3858 Dorchester^[33], an asteroid^[34].

Why It Matters

Dorchester draws 384 Wikipedia views per month (county_town category, ranking #16 of 22).^[2] Dorchester has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[35]

Entities named for Dorchester include Dorchester Town F.C.^[28], an association football club^[29], in United Kingdom^[30], founded in 1880^[31], headquartered in Dorchester^[32] and 3858 Dorchester^[33], an asteroid^[34].