This category lists websites relating to the village and parish located above West Fleet behind Chisel Bay.

Inland to the east on the B3157, websites are represented by the parish of  Portesham, and

the next parish along the coast to the south east is  Langton Herring.

The next parish west along the coast is  Puncknowle,

which includes websites for Swyre and West Bexington.

Affpuddle is a small village at the northern edge of the former Purbeck district, 9 miles east of Dorchester,

and 3 miles from the South Western Main Line railway station at  Moreton.

Tollpuddle is immediately north west.

Since 2001, Affpuddle has been administered as a parish combined with the village Turners Puddle,

a mile south west of  Bere Regis on the north bank of the River Piddle.

This category lists websites for this combined parish, where the other villages and hamlets are

south of the River Piddle, including Briantspuddle, Pallington and Throop.

The A35 road runs along the north of the parish, between Bere Regis in the north east, to  Puddletown in the west.

The B3390 passes the east of Affpuddle from the A35 south to Moreton.

Alderholt is a village and parish in East Dorset, on the B3078 from  Cranborne and Edmondsham to the Hampshire boundary at  Fordingbridge.

Alderholt parish includes the hamlets of Crendell and Cripplestyle, and this category includes websites for the area

up to the county boundary with Hampshire at Saddleheath directly north, and Cranborne Common south before  Verwood.

Arne is a village surrounded by heathland at the most northerly point of the Isle of Purbeck.

Arne parish stretches from this point back to Stoborough directly south of  Wareham and

includes the west of Wareham up to the River Piddle, including Worget north of the River Frome.

This topic leads to websites about local artistic, cultural and entertainment activities, events, institutions,

businesses and organisations dedicated to the arts that are based within Dorset.

Ashmore is village around 220 metres above sea level in North Dorset, on the boundary with the

Wiltshire parish of  Tollard Royal on Cranborne Chase.

Melbury Abbas is north west on the B3081 road, and  Compton Abbas is to the west over Fontmell Down,

just north of Fontmell Magna, then Sutton Waldron, before  Iwerne Minster further south.

Farnham is south east over Cranborne Chase, before  Sixpenny Handley.

Until there are separate categories, websites for these North Dorset parishes may be listed here.

Websites for further south east are included in the Sixpenny Handley category,

whereas those further south west are included in the Iwerne Minster category.

Askerswell is a village and West Dorset parish, north of the A35 road between  Bridport and Dorchester,

immediately east of Uploders represented by the  Loders category.

Chilcombe is directly south of the A35, where websites are listed in the  Litton Cheney category.

Askerswell village is at the confluence of streams from the surrounding chalk downs, from which the River Asker

flows west through Loders and Bradpole, before joining the River Brit, west of Bothampton in Bridport.

Shipton Gorge is to the south west.

A minor road leads via Spyway north east to Eggardon Hill, where Nettlecombe is in  Powerstock parish to

the north west, and  Toller Porcorum parish further north east.

West Compton is immediately east, which with Wynford Eagle and Toller Fratrum are represented by the

Compton Valence category, as is Kingston Russell, the next parish east on the A35 road to  Winterbour­ne Abbas.

This category represents the West Dorset parish of Batcombe east of the A37 road, south east of  The Melburys.

Batcombe village occupies lowland north of a downs scarp slope, separating the parish

from Frome St Quintin to the south, and Up Cerne to the east of the  Cerne valley.

The hamlet of Redford is at the north tip of Batcombe parish, before  Chetnole to the north.

This category leads to websites for the unitary authority estabished in April 2019 from three former areas^*

responsible for local services, including planning, housing, waste collection, environmental health and leisure services.

*    see  Government

Beaminster, is a small town, and parish, north of  Bridport on the A3066, separated by the parish

of  Netherbury, located in  West Dorset.

The parish of  Mosterton is north along the A3066,

with  Broadwindsor to the west on the B3163.

Bere Regis is a conurbation at the junction of the A31 with the A35 from Poole to Dorchester

Bere Regis is the parish at the head of the former District of Purbeck, and this category lists websites

for the parish, as far south west as the combined parish of  Affpuddle and Turner Puddle

around the River Piddle, and south east, where Bere Stream, meets the River Piddle,

before  East Stoke and  Wareham.

Bloxworth is the parish directly east.

Blandford Forum is the largest town in the former district of  North Dorset

located to the north of River Stour.

Blandford St Mary is a village on the south bank, and Blandford St Mary is a separate parish than

Blandford Forum, stretching south east to  Charlton Marshall, Winterborne Clenstone to

the south west and  Winterborne Stickland to the west.

The small parish of Bryanston, west of the River Stour, is represented by the  Durweston category.

East of the town, on the north bank of the Stour is Langton Long Blandford, after which is named

the parish stretching north to include Blandford Camp, before Tarrant Monkton and

Tarrant Launceston, and the lower Tarrant Vale represented by  Tarrant Keyneston to the north east.

  Pimperne and  Stourpaine are directly north of the town.

Bournemouth is the central English Channel resort in the  Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority.

with its sandy beach stretching from Poole to Hengistbury Head on the south shore of Christchurch harbour.

This harbour is at the mouth of the River Stour, which forms the eastern boundary, flowing from the north west,

where north of the Stour, the parish of  Hurn hosts Bournemouth International Airport.

West Parley is across the Stour at Bournemouth's most northerly point.

Canford Magna represents websites for the area north of Poole, as Bournemouth's western boundary

returns to the coast at Westbourne and Alum Chine.

This category represents the most northerly parish of Dorset.

Bourton is a village, now bypassed by the A303 trunk road, and skirts the North Dorset parish of  Silton to the south east.

Bourton parish extends south west of the A303, West Bourton, with its western boundary

with the  South Somerset parish of Cucklington.

North of the A303, the Somerset boundary is with  Penselwood.

Bourton's north east boundary is with Wiltshire at  Zeals.

The River Stour enters Dorset at Bourton, and flows south through Silton, to Milton on Stour in the parish of Gillingham

which extends west to the county boundary, before  Buckhorn Weston further south west.

Bradford Peverell is a linear settlement along the south bank of the River Frome, north west of  Dorchester,

originally the site of a first century Roman aqueduct.

Bradford Peverell parish extends from the Poundbury area of Dorchester, and includes the A37 ring road before

crossing the Frome at  Charminster east of the parish.

The railway line from Dorchester passes within the north parish boundary before crossing the Frome, north in to  Stratton.

Muckleford is a hamlet south of a bridge over the Frome, before the parish of  Frampton to the west.

Martinstown is across the southern parish boundary.

Bradpole is a West Dorset parish, which has grown from a village to become a suburb of  Bridport directly to the south west.

The western parish boundary coincides with the River Brit, but the main conurbation is on

the west bank of the River Asker which flows from  Loders immediately east.

At the south of the parish before Bothenhampton the area around the Asker is known as St Andrew's Well.

The north-eastern parish boundary coincides with the Mangerton River before joining the River Asker.

This category also includes websites for the hamlet of Mangerton immediately north of northern parish boundary in  Netherbury.

Bridport, an Anglo-Saxon town made famous by its rope making, is the largest town in  West Dorset.

This category leads to websites about the surrounding parish, through which flows the River Brit

from  Beaminster via  Netherbury from the north.

Bradpole to the east of the Brit, continues the conurbation along the A3066 road north east of the town.

South of the town, the west of the River Brit is in  Symondsbury parish.

The mouth of the Brit is represented by the  West Bay category.

Bridport is served by the A35 from  Chideock to the west, and towards  Dorchester in the east,

between  Loders and  Shipton Gorge.

Broadmayne is a village and parish south east of  Dorchester on the A352

towards  Owermoigne eastwards in West Dorset.

Besides Broadmayne, this category may list websites for the parishes

directly north; Whitcombe and West Knighton.

This category represents the area around the village and parish of Broadwindsor in

West Dorset, west of  Beaminster.

Mosterton is directly north east.

Littlewindsor is a hamlet directly north, within Broadwindsor parish, whereas the parish

of  Seaborough further north, with  Drimpton are both parishes on the boundary with  South Somerset.

Besides the parish of Broadwindsor, websites for the parish of Burstock may be listed here,

whereas those for further west are included in  Thorncombe.

Websites for the hills south west of Broadwinds­or;

Pilsdon Pen and Lewesdon Hill are listed in the  Stoke Abbott category.

Buckhorn Weston is a village and North Dorset parish on the western county boundary south east of  Wincanton.

It is administered as a combined parish with Kington Magna, immediately south east before  West Stour.

Gillingham is directly north east.

Buckland Newton is a village, with its West Dorset parish in the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

extending to its boundary with Glanvilles Wootton to the north in North Dorset.

Websites for Glanvilles Wootton may be listed with those for  Pulham to the north east.

Mappowder directly east is also a parish in North Dorset, and is represented by  Hazelbury Bryan further

north east, whereas Plush to the south east is in the West Dorset parish of  Piddletrenthide.

Alton Pancras is directly south, where the River Piddle rises from the surrounding downs,

flowing south to the linear settlement of Piddletrenthide.

Minterne Magna is to the west at the head of Cerne Vale, where websites are listed with  Cerne Abbas downstream.

Middlemarsh is to the north west, overlooking Blackmore Vale to the east.

This category lists websites relating to the village and parish of Burton Bradstock,

located at the western tip of Chisel Beach, on the B3157, east of  Bridport.

The parish of  Shipton Gorge is directly north inland.

Websites for Swyre parish, the next east on the B3157, are included in the  Puncknowle category.

This category lists websites for the area, south of the River Stour, south east of  Wimborne, including Merley to Knighton suburbs of Poole.

Cattistock is a village on the north bank of the River Frome, directly north of  Maiden Newton in West Dorset.

The western boundary of Cattistock is with Chilfrome, stretching north west with Wraxall to  Rampisham .

Evershot is to the north west, and Frome St Quintin to the north east, where the A37

provides the main road access via Chalmington and Sandhills north of Cattistock village.

Until there are separate categories, besides Cattistock, this category lists websites for parishes of

Chilfrome, Wraxhall and Frome St Quintin, whereas

East and West Chelborough further north are represented by the  Corscombe category.

Cerne Abbas is a village and civil parish on the River Cerne, which emerges from chalk hill springs to the north

around the smaller village of Minterne Magna { south of Middlemarsh and Blackmore Vale },

and flows south to its confluence with the River Frome at  Charminster.

Cerne Abbas is served by the A352 road, from  Dorchester south of Charminster,

northwards through  Longburton to  Sherborne.

Besides Cerne Abbas and Minterne Magna, this category lists websites for parishes of Nether Cerne and Godmanstone

Stratton is south west of Godmanstone, and websites for the hamlet of Forston and village of

Charlton Down to the south east are included in the Charminster category.

Charlton Marshall is a North Dorset parish, and village south east of  Blandford St Mary.

Besides Charlton Marshall, this category lists websites for Spetisbury, a linear settlement that continues along

the west bank of the River Stour and the A354 road from former district of North to East Dorset at  Sturminster Marshall.

The area to the east of the Stour at Tarrant Crawford is represented by the  Tarrant Keyneston category.

Charminster is a parish on the River Cerne, as it joins the River Frome, which forms the boundary with the county town of  Dorchester.

North of the main conurbation, the new village of Charlton Down, as well with the hamlet of Forston are within Charminster parish.

Stinsford is the next parish to the east, north of the River Frome.

The next parish to the west, along the north bank of the Frome, is  Stratton.

West of Dorchester, the parish south of the Frome is  Bradford Peverell.

This category leads to website about the parish of Charmouth east of  Lyme Regis along the  Jurassic Coast of  West Dorset.

The River Char enters the  English Channel from north east of the village in the parish of Catherston Lewston which rises

to 100 metres from the west bank of the Char.

Websites for Catherston Lewston may be listed here, but those for the parish further north east, Whitchurch Canonicorum,

should be listed with  Morcombelake which is reached along the A35 to the north east.

The parish to the north west is  Wootton Fitzpaine.

      ( Chedington should not to be confused with Cheddington in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire. )

Chedington is a village and parish south of  South Perrott, characterised by golden ham stone, in the

chalk hills of West Dorset, where springs create the source of two rivers, the Axe and the Parrett.

The Axe flows west via  Mosterton, whereas the Parrett flows north,

eventually to its mouth on the north coast of Somerset.

East of Chedington village, the A356 leads south east to  Maiden Newton, and across the valley at

Winyard's Gap to the east,  Corscombe parish is before the  Halstock category.

Chetnole is a village and parish, directly south of  Yetminster

Chetnole has a railway station on the Wessex Line, to the west of the village.

Besides Chetnole, this category represents the parish of Stockwood before the A37 road to the west.

Melbury Osmond is west of Stockwood, across the A37.

Websites for the parish immediately east of Chetnole may also be listed here.

Chickerell, is a small town, and parish, west of  Weymouth on the B3157 towards  Abbotsbury,

separated from  Wyke Regis to the south by Charlestown.

This category leads to websites about the parish of Chideock in  West Dorset.

This includes Seatown on the  Jurassic Coast, west of Golden Cap in the parish of  Stanton St Gabriel.

The village of Chideock is served by the A35 from  Morcombelake in the west to  Bridport

via  Symondsbury to the east.

Child Okeford is a village and parish in North Dorset, downstream on the River Stour as it winds down

Blackmore Vale, from the town of  Sturminster Newton in the west.

The village is on the east bank, joined to the A357 on the west bank via Hayward Bridge.

The linear settlement of  Shillingstone lies along the A357, as it runs south east towards  Blanford Forum

North of the village, Fontmell Parva is within Child Okeford parish, before Manston which shares its

administration with Hammoon represented by the  Okeford Fitzpaine category.

Christchurch, with  Highcliffe represents the eastern area of  Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority.

Christchurch was established at the confluence of the Rivers Avon from Hampshire and Wiltshire,

and Stour which rises north of  Gillingham.

The main conurbation of Christchurch is on the north bank of the harbour, with its entrance

from the the east protected from the English Channel south by Hengistbury Head.

On the east bank of the Avon, Winkton is a hamlet in the north of Christchurch district, which with Burton village,

both east of the B3347, together combine as the parish of Burton and Winkton.

On the west bank of the Avon, Jumpers Common is a residential area of Christchurch, served by the A338 from

the north, via the combined parish of  St Leonards and St Ives.

Ferndown Town parish is north of the BCP boundary, and Bournemouth International Airport is south of this

in the parish of  Hurn, mainly west of the A338.

The main conurbation of  Bournemouth is directly west of the Stour.

Colehill is a North Dorset parish east of the town of  Wimborne Minster.

The River Stour forms the southerm UA boundary with  Canford Magna in BCP Council.

The A31 road bypasses the main conurbations connecting the west from  Ferndown

and  West Moors to the east.

Besides Colehill, this category lists websites for the parishes of Holt and

Hinton to the east bank of the River Allen.

Compton Abbas is a village and parish, south of  Shaftesbury, separated

by the  North Dorset parishes of Cann and Melbury Abbas.

Compton Abbas village is directly east of the A350 road leading to  Blandford Forum

via Fontmell Magna, Sutton Waldron and  Iwerne Minster.

This category represents the area of West Dorset, north of the A35 road, from  Winterbourne Abbas to

the Frome Valley at Tollerford, represented by the  Newton Maiden category.

This includes the parish of Toller Fratrum before  Toller Porcorum further north west.

Between Compton Valence and the Tollers, a valley includes parishes of West Compton and Wynford Eagle,

east of Eggardon Hill, represented by  Askerswell further west.

Road access to Compton Valence from the A35 is through the hamlet of Kingston Russell.

Kingston Russell parish stretches south of A35 in downs above the Bride Valley

represented by the  Litton Cheney category.

Corfe Castle is a village and parish in the centre of the Isle of Purbeck.

The A351 road leads through the village from  Wareham to  Swanage.

The B3351 road leads to  Studland.

Minor roads lead to the south coastal parish of  Kimmeridge via Church Knowle.

Corfe Mullen, formerly a village in East Dorset district, the conurbation of  Poole encroaches from the south east.

Corfe Mullen retains its independence from BCP Council, and its parish includes green belt within the Dorset Heaths.

The parish now has a town council under Dorset Council, but has wards for

the Westminster parliamentary seat of Mid Dorset and North Poole.

The parish is surrounded by  Wimborne Minster to the north east,  Sturminster Marshall to the north west, 

Lytchett Matravers to the south west, and  Lytchett Minster and Upton to the south.

Corscombe is a village and parish east of Winyard's Gap and the A356, east of  Chedington. 

Halstock is directly north, and East Chelborough is directly east before Melbury Stamford,

represented by the  Melbury Osmond category.

Rampisham is the next parish to the south east along the A356.

East Chelborough and West Chelborough are parishes currently without their own category, so websites

for them may also be listed here, whereas those for further east are listed in the  Evershot category.

Cranborne is a village, and former market town and hundred, with Cranborne parish extending east to the

county boundary with Hampshire, north to  Pentridge,  Wimborne St Giles to the west.

Besides Cranborne, this category lists websites for Edmondsham parish immediately south east, whereas

those further south correspond to  Verwood.

Alderholt is to the east.

To the north west the area south of Cranborne Chase, is represented by the  Sixpenny Handley category.

Crossways is a parish 6 miles east of  Dorchester made famous from the role of

RAF Warmwell in the Battle of Britain of World War II, though much of

the airfield has disappeared through sand and gravel extraction.

Crossways is served by a railway station to the east of the village (  Moreton ),

on the South Western Main Line, connecting Dorchester to  Wool to the east.

The A3390 road leads to  Affpuddle in the north east, and Warmwell in the

south west, which is represented by  Broadmayne.

Owermoigne is south east, then East Knighton is in the parish of  Winfrith Newburgh,

and websites for the area east of Redridge, East Burton and the Dorset Innovation Park, are represented by  Wool.

Dorchester is the county town of Dorset, on the south bank of the River Frome,

founded by the Romans, as Dvrnovaria, and now the seat of Dorset Council.

The town is served by the South Western Main Line railway leading to Yeovil from

London Paddington via Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.

Dorchester's ring road, takes road traffic from  Puddletown on the A35 trunk road from the

north east, skirts the east of the town at  West Stafford, where the A352 takes traffic

south east to  Broadmayne, the A354 to  Weymouth south, the A35 west to  Bridport,

then at  Charminster north of the town, the A37 leads north west to

Yeovil, after leaving the county at  Melbury Osmond.

This category represents the area on the north west boundary of West Dorset, east of  Thorncombe,

south of the River Axe boundary with Somerset, south of Clapton in  South Somerset.

The next village to the east is  Mosterton.

The B3162 through Drimpton village leads south east to  Broadwindsor.

directly north, the area north of the Axe, is in the parish of  Seaborough.

Durweston is a village and North Dorset parish two miles north west of  Blandford Forum,

on the west bank of the River Stour downstream from  Shillingstone from the north west.

Besides Durweston, this category lists websites for the smaller parish of Bryanston to its south east.

East Stoke parish includes the village of West Holme, and this category lists websites for

the Purbeck parishes of East Holme and Coombe Keynes to the east and south of  Wool.

East Stour is a village and North Dorset parish set above the east bank of the River Stour,

on the A30 from  Shaftesbury, before crossing the Stour into  West Stour.

The B3092 road connects  Gillingham from the north, and

continues south via  Stour Provost.

This category represents the West Dorset parish of Evershot, south of the  Melburys.

Holywell is a hamlet at the eastern edge, on the A37, formally in the parish of

Frome St Quintin, which is represented by the  Cattistock category.

Rampisham is directly south west, and East and West Chelborough to the west

are represented by the  Corscombe category.

Ferndown is a town, immediately north of  West Parley, formerly in  East Dorset district.

The A348 road leads to north Bournemouth and Poole, the A31 road leads west to  Wimborne Minster

and to its north is the parish of  West Moors.

This category represents the the landbridge from  Weymouth to the parish of  Portland,

including the prison area, Castletown, Portland Port, Portland Marina and inside Portland Harbour

on east side of the tombola connecting The Isle of Portland with Weymouth at Wyke Regis via Ferry Bridge.

This category also includes websites for the area where  Chesil Beach

meets the west side of the Isle of Portland.

Frampton is a linear settlement along the A356 on the north bank of the River Frome in

a small West Dorset parish stretching east down the steep bank of Sydling Water,

which flows south to meet the Frome south east of the village.

Stratton is the next parish to the south east, north of the Frome, north west of  Charminster,

before Cerne Vale, and Godmanstone represented by  Cerne Abbas further north.

Sydling St Nicholas represents the vale north of Stratton.

Frampton parish extends south of the Frome, linked by a bridge to Southover, a hamlet on the

site of a medieval village, with  Maiden Newton on the western boundary.

Compton Valence is further south west,  Winterbourne Abbas is south,

and  Bradford Peverell is to the south east.

This category represents the most northerly town in Dorset, on the River Stour, south of  Bourton and Silton.

Gillingham parish includes Milton on Stour north of the town, and extends west to the county boundary

with  South Somerset at Cucklington.

Gillingham has a railway station, and the line from  Tisbury, enters Dorest north of  Motcombe and

leaves Dorset at  Buckhorn Weston before  Sherborne further south west.

This category includes sites about Dorset's local government, policing, judicial system, taxation and the military.

Local government reorganisation in the ceremonial county were planned in May 2018, when existing councils would be replaced by two new unitary authorities.

• One was formed from the existing unitary authorities of Bournemouth and Poole which will merge with the non-metropolitan district of Christchurch to create a unitary authority to be known as Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council.
• The merger of the existing non-metropolitan districts of Weymouth and Portland, West Dorset, North Dorset, Purbeck and East Dorset, to be known as Dorset Council.

This took effect on 1 April 2019

Since categories for the old districts were in place to link to their localities, these have been retained,

and should be maintained to represent electoral constituencies.

Gussage St Michael is a village, and north East Dorset parish, which includes the hamlet of Cashmoor,

south of the A354 road, south of  Sixpenny Handley, and west of  Wimborne St Giles.

Besides Gussage St Michael, this category lists websites for Gussage All Saints parish to the south east,

whereas those for across the River Allen in Woodlands are listed with  Horton further south east.

Long Crichel is east, and Moor Crichel is directly south, represented by  Witchampton, next south

on the west bank of the River Allen, before the North Dorset parish of  Tarrant Launceston further east.

North of the A354, the North Dorset parish of Tarrant Hinton is represented by the 

Tarrant Gunville category, which also represents websites for Chettle.

Halstock is a village and parish on the northern boundary of West Dorset, south of Sutton Bingham Reservoir and Yeovil.

Melbury Osmond is directly east, East Chelborough is directly south east before West Chelborough,

which are represented by the  Corscombe category.

Corscombe separates Halstock parish from the A356, in the south west, to Winyard's Gap directly west,

where Chedington Woods are in the boundary parish of  South Perrott.

Hamworthy is a parish and suburb of  Poole, forming a peninsula into Holes Bay of Poole Harbour,

with the port and ferry passenger terminal for Cherbourg and the Channel Islands.

This category lists websites for the conurbation on the north shore or Poole Harbour from

Rockley Sands, Ham Hill, to Lower Hamworthy, south east of  Upton.

The Old Town of Poole is connected to Lower Hamworthy by bridges (A350)

across the Back Water Channel in Holes Bay.

Hazelbury Bryan is a North Dorset parish, and scattered village, with hamlets of Droop, Kingston, Parkgate, Pidney,

Pleck, Wonston and Woodrow, in the Blackmore Vale, south of  Lydlinch, east of King's Stag and  Pulham,

north of Mappowder, north west of Stoke Wake and Woolland, and east of  Ibberton,

and south west of Belchalwell represented by  Okeford Fitzpaine further north east.

Also known as Highcliffe on Sea, this category represents the combined parish of Highcliffe and Walkford at the eastern end of  Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority.

The A337 takes road traffic west through  Christchurch, and connects the Hampshire coastline to the east at  Barton on Sea.

New Milton is to the north east, and the A35 road leaves the north east of Highcliffe

from Christchurch, giving access to the New Forest to the north.

This category lists websites in the North Dorset parish of Hilton, east of  Melcombe Bingham

in the West Dorset parish of Melcombe Horsey.

Besides the village of Hilton, the parish includes Ansty, including Lower and Higher Ansty to the north west.

To the north, the Wessex Ridgway, coincides with the parish boundary with Stoke Wake and Woolland.

Winterbourne Houghton is the parish to the east, north of  Milton Abbas, which stretches

to the old district border where Cheselbourne is directly south west of Hilton.

Holwell is small settlement, and parish on the southern edge of West Dorset, south of the A3030 road

between  Sherborne and  Sturminster Newton.

The West Dorset parish neighbours are Bishop's Caudwell directly north,

then Folke north west, Holnest to the west.

The North Dorset parish neighbours are Glanvilles Wootton directly south west,  Pulham directly south,

and  Lydlinch to the east, which has King's Stag before the River Lydden.

Hooke is a village south of the A356 road, between Winyard's Gap and  Maiden Newton.

Hooke parish's northern boundary is with  Rampisham which stretches across the A356

at Rampisham Down.   Toller Porcorum is directly south east. 

North Poorton is south west, represented by  Mapperton directly west.

Horton is a village, and East Dorset parish, on the east bank of the River Allen,

north of Chalbury and south of Woodlands.

This category lists websites for these three parishes.

Upstream,  Wimborne St Giles village is on the east bank, and its parish spans

west across the Allen to  Gussage All Saints.

Moor Crichel is directly west of Horton connected by a minor road bridge, and the B3078 takes road traffic

south west from  Cranborne, through the Allen Vale to Hinton, represented by  Colehill further south.

Holt parish to the south east is also represented by Colehill, whereas websites for east of Horton Heath

are represented by  Three Legged Cross, which is part of  Verwood parish to the north east.

Hurn is the parish north east of  Bournemouth and north west of  Christchurch in  Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority.

The parish hosts Bournemouth International Airport, and  West Parley is west of the airport.

Ferndown is to the north west, then south of  West Moors the A31 leads north east via the combined parish

of  St Leonards and St Ives and to  Ringwood, Hants, east of the Avon.

Ibberton is a village and North Dorset parish south of  Okeford Fitzpaine which has the hamlets

of Belchalwell and Belchalwell Street, which along with Woolland parish to the west shares amenities.

Websites for this area north of Bulbarrow and Woolland Hills are listed here, whereas

to the south is  Hilton parish.

This category leads to websites for localites on the penisula in the former Purbeck District, which since April 2019

has been part of the unitary authority of  Dorset Council.

The Isle of Purbeck is a peninsula south of Poole Harbour.

The major holiday resort is  Swanage at the south east tip, with Peveril Point and Durlston Head projecting eastwards

in to the  English Channel, and on a clear day the  Isle or Wight can be seen 20 miles directly east.

Along the south coast, the next parish is  Worth Matravers which has the most southern point at St Aldhem's Head.

The next village to the west is Kingston which is in the parish of  Corfe Castle.

The village of Corfe Castle is on the A351 road, connecting Swanage with Dorset to the east.

The parish of Corfe Castle stretches to tidal creeks into the south shore of Poole Harbour.

Here the parish to the east is  Studland, which includes the Studland and Godlingston Heath National Nature Reserve, as well as

"Little Sea" and marshy Studland Heath that has its own penisula projecting north east, where South Haven Point makes

a narrow entrance for boats into Poole Harbour.  (In season a ferry connects with Sandbanks, a tied island from Poole.)

Arne is hamlet north west of Corfe Castle, and Arne parish is at the mouth of the River Frome which flows south of  Wareham from the west.

Within Arne parish, Stoborough and Stoborough Green are south of Wareham.

South of Stoborough Green, the next parish, Church Knowles, is land locked.

Kimmeridge separates Church Knowles from south coast, west of Kingston.

North of Kimmeridge, the Purbeck Hills rise to almost 200 metres, on a steep-sided ridge, from the castle remains

at Corfe Castle village westwards through Steeple with Tyneham parish, ending abruptly in a 180 metre cliff

at Worbarrow Bay west of the hamlet of Tyneham.

The ridge continues westwards from East Ludworth to West Ludworth with another steep cliff above Mupe Bay,

exposing fossils in the cliff face to the elements of the sea.

This part of the coastline is represented by the  Ludworth Cove category.

The B3071 serves Ludworth Cove, from the north, where at  Wool the A352 from  East Knighton directly west,

leads to Warehem, where the A352 joins the A351 from  Sanford, and  Lytchett Minster west of Poole.

Iwerne Minster is a village on the A350 south of  Shaftesbury to  Blandford.

Iwerne Minster is at the head of the River Iwerne which flows south through parishes of

Iwerne Courtney (aka Shroton), Iwerne Stepleton, Hanford and Stourpaine,

north of its confluence with the River Stour at  Durweston.

Kimmeridge is a village on the south coast of the Isle of Purbeck, east of  Lulworth Cove and west of  Worth Matravers.

Kimmeridge is only approached by minor roads, either via the small village of Steeple from the north west or Church Knowle west of  Corfe Castle.

Kimmeridge parish has its east boundary with Corfe Castle before Kingston, then Church Knowle before the Purbeck Hills ridgeway.

Steeple parish is combined with Tyneham, formerly a village directly west of Kimmeridge, but deserted since being commandeered in World War II.

This has remained restricted by the MOD, which has a camp to the east of West Lulworth Village, which

along with East Lulworth is represented by the Lulworth Cove category.

Besides Kimmeridge parish, this category lists websites for Church Knowle and Steeple with Tyneham.

This category lists websites relating to the village and parish located above West Fleet

behind Chisel Bay, between  Chickerell to the east and  Abbotsbury to the west.

The parish inland to the north is  Portesham.

Litton Cheney is a small village south of the A35 road east from  Bridport, overlooking the Bride Valley.

The River Bride rises to the east at Bridehad Lake, in Littlebredy parish and flows west, where the linear settlement

of Long  Bredy climbs up the north bank, and Long Bredy parish is directly east of Litton Cheney parish.

At this point, Puncknowle parish is south across the valley, and websites for Puncknowle are listed in the  Abbotsbury category.

The next parish west is Chilcombe on the north bank, and Swyre to the south is represented by  Burton Bradstock,

where the Bride flows to its mouth with the English Channel at Burton Freshwater.

Besides Litton Cheney, this category includes websites

relating to the inland villages and parishes all along the Bride Valley.

Websites for the area north of the A35 should be listed in the  Askerswell category.

Loders is a village and West Dorset parish directly east of  Bradpole and west of  Askerswell.

Loders village is on the north bank of the River Asker, and within the parish to the east, Up Loders

is on the south bank, and connects to the A35 road providing access from Dorchester.

Shipton Gorge is directly south.

Longburton is a linear settlement along the A352 road, three miles south of   Sherborne.

With Holnest, Leweston and Lillington, Longburton is a parish in West Dorset, north of Middlemarsh and west of Blackmore Vale.

Websites for these parishes are included here, whereas those for Cerne Valley, such as Minterne Magna are included in the  Cerne Abbas category.

 

Lulworth Cove is a feature of Dorset's Jurassic Coast, which has a small village and holiday resort to the west.

West Lulworth is a village further inland, which gives its name to the parish for this category.

Lydlinch is a village in North Dorset on the A357 road west of  Sturminster Newton,

on the west bank of the River Lydden.

The parish of Lydlinch extends from Caudle Brook, south to King's Stag in Blackmore Vale.

The North Dorset parish neighbours are  Pulham directly south,  Hazelbury Bryan to the south east,

Fifehead Neville directly east, south of Sturminster Newton and  Stalbridge is immediately north west of the A357.

Off the A357 west of the village, the A3030 leads across the boundary into West Dorset at Bishop's Caudwell and

south of this,  Holwell is accessed from King's Stag.

This category leads to websites about Lyme Regis, the most western town in  West Dorset

on the  Jurassic Coast of the  English Channel.

To the west are the Ware cliffs in the East Devon parish of  Uplyme whose main

conurbation is north west of the town in the Lim Valley.

The River Lim flows through the town to the east of the beach and harbour where

The Cob offers some protection for the harbour from the south west.

The A3052 bridges the mouth of the Lim, then before Church Cliffs to the east,

heads north to meet the A35 between  Axminster from the west and

to the east bypassing  Charmouth.

This category represents the Dorset parish of Lytchett Matravers, north west of  Lytchett Minster.

This category represents the Dorset combined parish of Lytchett Minster and Upton.

Although Lytchett Minster is the original conurabation, this has remained a small village to the west of Upton.

Upton as become a town directly west of the boundary with the  Poole, which is now the boundary between

the unitary authorites of  Dorset Council and  BCP Council.

Technically the parish is not part of the Isle of Purbeck, but its south boundary is the tidal mouth of

the Rock Lea River, into Lytchett Bay, which to the south meets Wareham Channel on the

eastern parish boundary of Wareham St Martin represented by the  Sanford category.

This category represents the area of West Dorset, on the A3066 from Winyard's Gap north west,

where it joins the A37 at  Frampton to the south east.

Maiden Newton has a railway station, serving Dorchester from  Yetminster and  South Somerset.

The main conurbation of Maiden Newton is on the north bank of the River Frome, as it flows

south east to  Dorchester.

Besides Maiden Newton, this category includes websites for the parish of Frome Vauchurch on

the south bank of the Frome, which includes Tollerford upstream.

Those for the area further west are included in the  Toller Porcorum category, and

Wynford Eagle to the south is represented by the  Compton Valence category.

( Parish not to be confused with the hamlet east of  Winterborne Zelston, west of Almer village, where websites are listed in  Sturminster Marshall. )

Mapperton is a small parish south east of  Beaminster, before  Hooke.

The B3163 road provides access to Mapperton from the north, and leads to  Corscombe, north east of Toller Whelme.

The parish is dominated by Mapperton estate, the ancestral home of the Earl of Sandwich, and this category includes websites for the

parish immediately south, North Poorton, and the area in the immediate vicinity of northern tributaries of the River Mangerton.

Melplash to the west is in the parish of  Netherbury.

North Poorton is immediately south, before South Poorton and Loscombe in  Powerstock parish.

Marnhull is a village and North Dorset parish in Blackmore Vale, three miles north of  Sturminster Newton

on the B3092 road which continues to  Stour Provost.

The parish of  Stalbridge is to the west across the River Stour.

Websites for Hinton St Mary may be included in the Sturminster Newton category, whereas this category

may include those for Margaret Marsh parish to the east.

Todber to the north east is represented by the Stour Provost category.

Websites for Fifehead Magdalen to the north of the River Stour are listed with  West Stour.

This category represents the Marshwood Vale in West Dorset, north east of  Wootton Fitzpaine, to the boundary.

with East Devon at  Hawkchurch, and  Thorncombe to the north.

This category includes websites for the parishes of Marshwood and Bettiscombe,

through which the B3165 leads to  Broadwindsor.

The hills at head of the Vale to the north east are represented by the  Stoke Abbott category.

To the south, the Char Valley is in the parish of Whitchurch Canonicorum, represented by the  Morcombelake category.

Martinstown also known as Winterborne St Martin is a village and West Dorset parish on the B3159,

south east of Winterbourne Steepleton, represented by the  Winterbourne Abbas category.

This category represents the rural area south west of Dorchester including Winterborne Monkton and

Winterborne Herrington, before the A354 road leads to  Weymouth.

This category represents the West Dorset parishes, south of  Yetminster along te A37 road,

from  Yeovil, south of the parishes of Barwick and East Coker in  South Somerset.

Besides Melbury Osmond, this includes parishes of Melbury Samford to the south, and Melbury Bubb east of the A37.

Stockwood parish directly east of the A37 is represented by  Chetnole. 

Evershot is south of Melbury Samford, but Holywell on the A37 is in the parish of Frome St Quintin, which

is represented by the  Cattistock category.

East and West Chelborough further north are represented by the  Corscombe category.

Melcombe Bingham is the postal town for the rural parish of Melcombe Horsey, in the north west

of  West Dorset, in the downs north of  Puddletown.

The parishes of Cheselbourne and Dewlish separate Melcombe Horsey from the A354 road to Blandford.

The hamlets of Ansty Cross and Higher Ansty over the eastern boundary are in  Hilton parish to the east,

which in turn is west of  Milton Abbas.

Milborne St Andrew is a village and parish in the south west corner of the former North Dorset district,

on the A354 road, between  Blandford Forum and  Dorchester.

Milton Abbas is directly north.

Milton Abbas is a landscaped village built in the eighteenth century, at the behest of

the first Earl of Dorchester, after demolishing the market town of Milton.

His home, Milton Abbey, is now an independent school, is to the west of the village,

with a view down the valley to  Milborne St Andrew to the south.

Minor road access is from the A354 road, from Milborne St Andrew and Winterborne Winterchurch

to the south east of the village, in the Winterborne valley running from north to south,

east of Milton Abbas is represented by  Winterborne Stickland, the next parish directly east,

with Winterborne Houghton directly north east, and  Hilton directly north west.

This category leads to websites about the village of Morcombelake in the land-locked parish of Whitchurch Canonicorum

on the A35 between  Charmouth and  Bridport to the east via the parishes of  Chideock and  Symondsbury.

Whitchurch Canonicorum includes the upper reaches of the River Chard to the west of Morcombelake

with the parish of Marshwood to the north.

Whitchurch Canonicorum is separated from the Jurassic Coast by the parish of Stanton St Gabriel which

includes the Golden Cap, rising to 161 metres above the natural Cann Harbour.

Websites for this area are included with Morcombelake, but those for Seatown further east

should be included with  Chideock.

Moreton is a parish on the west bank of the River Frome, north west of  Wool,

East Burton and the Dorset Innovation Park.

Moreton is served by a railway station to the west of the parish, on the

South Western Main Line, connecting Wool with  Dorchester to the west.

Immediately west of the station,  Crossways is over the old West/ North district boundary.

Woodsford is also a West Dorset parish, north of the station, represented by the Crossways category.

The B3390 crosses the River Frome to the north, where Moreton Plantation is in the

combined parish of  Affpuddle and Turnspuddle.

East of Moreton across the Frome, Bovington Heath can be approached only by foot bridges.

Bovington Camp further east is in the north of Wool parish.

This category represents the area on the north west boundary of West Dorset, east of  Drimpton and  Seaborough.

Mosterton village lies north and south of the River Axe, which flows west from its catchment south of  Chedington.

The village is served by the A3066 from  Beaminster in the south, to

Misterton across the county boundary in  South Somerset.

Motcombe is a village and North Dorset parish, immediately north west of  Shaftesbury, with  Gillingham and 

East Stour to the west, and south east of  Silton.

The eastern parish boundary is with the county of Wiltshire at the combined parish of  Sedgehill and Semley south of  Mere.

Hills in the east of the parish enclose the village in the eastern edge of the Blackmore Vale.

The River Lodden forms the northern parish boundary, as it flows south west to join the Stour, south of Gillingham.

Netherbury, is a village and parish, south of  Beaminster west of the A3066 to Bridport.

The parish extends south west to the B3162 at Salway Ash, then further west to

Broadoak across the parish boundary with  Symondsbury

Stoke Abbott is to the north west.    Mapperton is to the north east.

Malpash is within the parish to the east on the A3066, before  Bradpole parish further south.

Okeford Fitzpaine is a village and North Dorset parish south east of  Sturminster Newton

and west of  Shillingstone.

The parish includes the hamlets of Belchalwell and Belchalwell Street to the south,

before  Ibberton.

This category also represents the parish directly north, Hammoon south of the Stour,

including Fiddleford a hamlet on the east bank, south east of Sturminster Newton.

The village of Manston is north of Stour, and shares its administration with Hammoon

is also represented by this category.

Osmington is a village and parish on the heritage coast, east of the Bowleaze, Overcombe and Preston area of Weymouth Bay.

Osmington village is served by the A353, and a smaller village Osmington Mills is on the coast.

Before the A353 turns north to Poxwell, minor roads lead to Ringstead and Ringstead Bay,

before the parish of Chaldon Herring to the east.

Owermoigne is a village and parish on the A352 from  Broadmayne, before leaving West Dorset,

towards  Wool in the east.

Pentridge is a village, with its name derived from the Celtic for 'hill of the wild boar' on the edge of Cranborne Chase in north East Dorset.

The former civil parish, is now administered as a combined parish with  Sixpenny Handley to the west.

The east parish boundary with Hampshire at  Martin largely coincides with Bokerley Ditch, a defensive dyke

from the 1st century, where at Bockerley Junction, it is crossed by the Roman road between

Old Sarum and Badbury Rings.  The settlement of Woodyates survives off the A354.

Cranborne is directly south, and the north limits of  Wimborne St Giles include the Roman road along Ackling Dyke as it heads south south west,

separating Pentridge and  Sixpenny Handley.

The northern boundary is with the Wiltshire parish of  Bower Chalke.

Piddletren­thide is a linear settlement on the River Piddle as it flows south

from Alton Pancras where it rises from the surrounding downs,

This category lists websites for both West Dorset parishes of Alton Pancras and Piddletren­thide,

whereas  Buckland  Newton is over the downs to the north.

Plush is a village in a valley to the east within Piddletren­thide parish, through which a minor road

leads to the North Dorset parish of Mappowder between  Pulham and  Hazelbury Bryan.

To the west, Cerne Vale, is represented by the  Cerne Abbas category.

To the south of White Lackington, Piddlehinton is the next parish downstream,

before  Puddletown further south east.

Pimperne is a village and North Dorset parish, immediately north of Blandford Camp, north east

of  Blandford Forum parish, and east of  Stourpaine.

Pimperne village is on the A354 road to Tarrant Hinton, represented by  Tarrant Gunville is further north.

The parish of Iwerne Stepleton is to the north west, represented

by  Iwerne Minster further north.

This category leads to websites for the former borough of Poole now within the unitary authority of  BCP Council.

Parts of the old borough on the north shore of Poole Harbour west of the Old Town of Poole, from Rockley Sands,

Ham Hill to Lower Hamworthy, south east of  Upton are included in the  Hamworthy category.

The Old Town of Poole is connected to Lower Hamworthy by bridges acorss the Back Water Channel in Holes Bay.

East of the Old Town is Parkstone, with Lilliput on the east shore of Poole Harbour.

From Canford Cliffs a penisula protrudes to the south west at Sandbanks where a ferry across the entrance

of Poole Harbour serves the Isle of Purbeck at  Studland.

West of Canford Cliffs, Branksome Chine forms the boundary with the old borough of  Bournemouth.

Until there are sufficient websites, those for Parkstone and Branksome are included here.

Talbot Campus of Bournemouth University is within the north east boundary of Poole, but further north is in Bournemouth,

until Bearwood further north west, where the River Stour forms the boundary between Poole and  Wimbourne Minster at Merley.

West of Broadstone, websites are included in the  Corfe Mullen category.

This category lists websites relating to the village and West Dorset parish of Portesham on the B3157 road inland

east of  Abbotsbury, and includes the hamlet of Rodden to south east before  Langton Herring.

This category may list websites for the north over Portesham Hill where the next parish,

Winterbourne Steepleton, is represented by the  Winterbourne Abbas category.

Before then, a minor road leads west down the Bride Valley to  Litton Cheney.

The Isle of Portland is a landform projecting from the Dorset coast in to the English Channel, with a lighthouse, Portland Bill,

at its southern tip; further south than Worth Matravers on the Isle of Purbeck and Niton Lighthouse on the Isle of Wight,

though Torquay is further south across Lyme Bay.

The A354 road is the only land access to Portland, via Ferry Bridge, along the tombolo from  Wyke Regis.

To the west of the tombolo, Chesil Beach is a natural shingle bank,protecting the coastline westwards to  Abbotsbury.

Portland Harbour is east of the A354, which since 1849 construction of breakwaters from the north east of the Isle at Baclava Bay,

extending north east, then north west to Ridwell on the south bank of the River Wye at  Wyemouth, encloses 520 hectares,

creating one of the largest man-made harbour in the world.

The south shore of Portland Harbour is highly developed and websites for this area, including Castletown on low ground

to Chiswell, north of the higher Verne Heath, are listed in the  Fortuneswell category.

This category lists websites for the area south of The Verne, which includes numerous Portland Stone quarries,

and sites of special scientific interest (SSSI), as well as the villages of Grove, Easton,

Weston and Southwell before the remote southern tip at Portland Bill.

Powerstock is a village and West Dorset parish, north east of  Loders, via the hamlet of Nettlecombe.

The River Mangerton flows south of Powerstock village, west to West Milton within the parish before  Bradpole.

North of West Milton, the parish includes Loscombe before North Poorton and Mapperton

represented by  Netherbury to the north west.

Powerstock parish extends north east over Powerstock Common to  Toller Porcorum.

The parish immediately east is West Compton, represented by  Compton Valence further east.

Puddletown is a settlement on the River Piddle, now bypassed by the A35 trunk road north east of  Dorchester.

The River Piddle flows from the north west through Piddlehinton from  Piddletren­thide.

The Piddle continues east through Athelhampton to  Tolpuddle.

North of the A35, the next parish north east is Burleston.

On the A35 south west,  Stinsford parish separates Puddletown from Dorchester

and  West Stafford to the south.

Pulham is a village and North Dorset parish on the boundary with West Dorset at  Holwell.

Besides Pulham, websites for the North Dorset parish of Granvilles Wootton directly west may be listed here.

Hazelbury Bryan is to the east, and  King's Stag and Lydlinch directly north east.

Puncknowle is a village set back from the Jurrasic Coast, between  Abbotsbury and  Burton Bradstock.

The West Dorset parish of Puncknowle includes West Bexington, a linear settlement along the road to shoreline,

where there is a carpark on Chisel Beach.

The minor road between Puncknowle village and West Bexington, passes through the hamlet of Swyre on the B3157.

Swyre is a separate parish to the west of Puncknowle, but is administered with West Bexington as parish group.

This category lists websites relating to category lists websites for Puncknowle, Swyre and West Bexington.

The area to the north, Bride Valley, is represented by the  Litton Cheney  category.

Rampisham is a village east of the A356 road, between Winyard's Gap and  Maiden Newton.

Rampisham parish's northern boundary is with  Corscombe, and stretches south west across

the A356, at Rampisham Down to  Hooke, and  Toller Porcorum is directly south. 

North of the A356, the parishes of Chilfrome and Wraxhall separating Rampisham from

Maiden Newton, are represented by  Cattistock to their east.

East Chelborough and West Chelborough are parishes to the north currently

represented by Corscombe.

This category leads to websites about hobbies, sports and participatory recreational activities specific to

Dorset; including local recreation organisations, services, facilities and events.

Not all localities have a Recreation and Sports category so these sub-topics can be seen

by clicking the   symbol right of the path heading.

If this is grey, then clicking restores the view with localities at the top.

Websites primarily promoting  Fitness, can be seen under Health.

Websites specialising in the sale of  Sporting Goods, can be seen under Shopping.

This category represents the Dorset parish of Wareham St Martin, whose main conurbation is Sandford.

The parish is directly south of  Lytchett Minster where the River Serford makes up most of

the northern boundary to the east at Lytchett Bay.

The railway spans the Rockley Viaduct over the unitary authority boundary with Hamsworthy from Poole, with

Holton Heath Station named after the local nature reserve, though now separated by a trading estate.

South of the railway to  Wareham station the parish has its boundary with Wareham Town Council, a conurabation

occupying the north and south banks af the River Piddle, forming the gateway to the Isle of Purbeck.

This category represents the small parish on the north west boundary of West Dorset,

with its southern boundary, the River Axe, north of  Drimpton,

south of  Crewkerne, and east of Clapton in  South Somerset.

The next village to the east is  Mosterton.

The hamlet of Littlewindsor is directly south in the parish of  Broadwindsor.

Shaftesbury is a hill top town in North Dorset, with its east boundary with the county/AU of Wiltshire in  Camborne Chase AONB.

The A350 serves the town from  Warminster from the north, to  Blandford Forum in the south.

The A30 crosses the town from  Salisbury from the east, to  East Stour in the west.

Motcombe is the North Dorset parish immediately north and west, whereas besides Shaftesbur­y,

this category includes websites for the parish of immediately south.

North Dorset parishes of Compton Abbas, Fontmell Magna and Melbury Abbas are represented by

the  Ashmore category.

Shapwick is a village on the north bank of the River Stour, down stream from Spetisbury represented by  Charlton Marshall to the west.

Tarrant Keyneston is to the north west, and  Sturminster Marshall is across the Stour to the south.

Shapwick parish is separated from  Wimborne Minster to the east by Pamphill, which extends northwards on the

west bank of the River Allen upstream to  Witchampton.

This category lists websites for both rural parishes of Pamphill and Shapwick, whereas Hinton east of the Allen,

is represented by  Colehill.

Sherborne is a town in the north of Dorset, east of  Yeovil and west of  Milborne Port on the A30 trunk road.

The A352, leads south from Sherborne, over the River Yeo towards  Dorchester.

Besides Sherborne, websites for the rural area to the boundary with  South Somerset may be listed here.

This includes the parishes of Bradford Abbas, Nether Compton, Over Compton, Trent,

Castleton, Sandford Orcas, Poyntington, Oborne and Goathill.

Shillingstone is a village and North Dorset parish in Blackmore Vale downstream of  Sturminster Newton

from the north west, and west of the River Stour on the A357 road, north west of  Durweston.

Okeford Fitzpaine is directly west, and  Child Okeford, east of the River Stour

is accessible via Hayward bridge north of the village.

Shipton Gorge is a village and parish directly east of Bothenhampton represented by  Bridport.

The A35 provides access from Dorchester, via  Loders,

and  Burton Bradstock is directly south.

This category represents the northerly North Dorset parish named after the small village of Silton,

south and east of Bourton, where streams feed the River Stour,

which flows to Milton on Stour in the parish of Gillingham to the south.

The North Dorset parish of  Motcombe is directly south east.

Across te South Somerset boundary,  Mere is to the north east.

Sixpenny Handley is a village, and former hundred and civil parish, now administered as a combined parish

with  Pentridge to the east, south east of Cranborne Chase, on the north boundary of East Dorset. 

Wimborne St Giles is to the south east, and  Gussage St Michael to the south west, where the A354 road

runs north east to the north of Hampshire at Martin (represented by  Damerham ).

From the A354, the B3081 leads road traffic through Sixpenny Handley village, westwards over

Cranborne Chase to  Tollard Royal north west of the Wiltshire boundary at Michinigton Down.

South of this, within Sixpenny Handley parish, are the hamlets of Michinigton and Gussage St Andrew,

before Cashmoor, south of the A354 in Gussage St Michael parish.

West of Michinigton, the North Dorset parish of Farnham is represented by the  Tarrant Gunville category.

Sixpenny Handley parish shares Chase Wood on its northern boundary with the Wiltshire parish

of  Bower Chalke.

This category leads to websites for localites as far south as the penisula of  Portland, which since April 2019 has been part of the unitary authority of  Dorset Council.

Previously Portland had shared a Borough, a local government district, with  Weymouth.

Before April 2019, Purbeck District was also a local government district representing the area east and south of Poole.

There is no parish of Purbeck so websites for these localities remain grouped together in the  Isle of Purbeck category.

Both these boroughs are in the UK Parliament constituency of South Dorset.

Much of the East, North and West Districts of Dorset coincided with electoral constituencies.

One exception is the Mid Dorset and North Poole, and localities not included

in charters elsewhere for that constituency may be listed in this category.

This category represents the area on the north boundary of West Dorset, east of  Mosterton.

South Perrott village is served by the A3066 from Winyard's Gap and  Maiden Newton further

south east, to Misterton across the county boundary in  South Somerset.

Stalbridge is a small town and North Dorset parish in Blackmore Vale, south west

of  Gillingham and north west of  Sturminster Newton.

The A357 road runs to its northern parish boundary in to Somerset at  Henstridge,

on its way to  Wincanton.

Stinsford is a village on the north bank of the River Frome, east of the A35 directly north east of  Dorchester.

The West Dorset parish of Stinsford includes hamlets of Lower and Higher Bockhampton, and extends north

to  Puddletown next parish north east along the A35, with Puddletown Forest before

the parish of Tincleton directly east on the north bank of the Frome.

Besides Stinsford, this category includes websites for Tincleton parish, whereas those for

south of the Frome are listed in the  West Stafford category.

Stinsford's western boundary is with  Charminster.

Stoke Abbott is a village and West Dorset parish south of  Broadwindsor.

To the west of the village, Lewesdon Hill is the highest point, in Dorset.

Further west, Pilsdon Pen is the second highest point

( 279 metres (915 ft) and 277-metre (909 ft) high respectively).

This category represents both the parishes of Stoke Abbott and Pilsdon.

To the north of Pilsdon, the parish of Burstock is represented by Broadwindsor,

whereas the parish of Bettiscombe directly west, at the head of

Marshwood Vale, is represented by the  Marshwood category.

Stourpaine is a village and North Dorset parish, immediately north west of  Blandford Forum parish,

located to the east of the River Stour, north east of  Durweston.

The parish includes the Roman fort site at Hodd Hill south of Hanford parish, south east of  Child Okeford.

The parish of Iwerne Stepleton, represented by  Iwerne Minster further north.

Pimperne is directly east.

Stour Provost is a village and North Dorset parish on the east bank of the River Stour, connected

by the B3092 road between  Marnhull in the south to  East Stour directly north.

Fifehead Magdalen is connected only by a footbridge across the Stour, and is represented

by  West Stour parish, which is approached by the A30 from East Stour.

Besides Stour Provost, this category represents Todber parish to the south east.

Stratton is a linear settlement along the north bank of the River Frome, now bypassed by the A37 road from  Charminster.

The railway line from  Dorchester separates the village from the majority of Stratton parish, between Charminster in the Cerne Valley to the east.

The northern parish buundary is with Godmanstone, where websites are listed with  Cerne Abbas further north.

Sydling Water forms the western boundary, and flows from  Sydling St Nicholas further north.

Grimstone is a hamlet along the A37, before the next parish to the west,  Frampton.

Muckleford is a hamlet south of a bridge over the Frome, in the parish of  Bradford Peverell.

This category lists websites for the parish of Studland in the north east of the  Isle of Purbeck.

The north east tip of the parish at South Haven Point, is the mouth of Poole Harbour, where

a ferry connects with Sandbanks, projecting from  Poole.

Brownsea Island, the largest island in Poole Harbour is included in this parish.

Smaller islands to the west are included in  Arne parish.

Studland village overlooks Studland Bay and the parish includes the chalk headland, Handfast Point stretching east,

with Ballard Point to the south, and Ballard Down forms the parish boundary with  Swanage further south.

The next parish west is  Corfe Castle.

This category represents the parish of Sturminste­r Marshall in East Dorset, on the

south bank of the River Stour, north west of  Corfe Mullen.

The A350 road leads south from  Spetisbury to  Lytchett Matravers.

The A31 bypasses south of the village from  Wimborne Minster to

  Winterborne Zelston leading to  Bere Regis further south west.

Sturminster Newton is a town on the River Stour as it winds down Blackmore Vale,

from  Gillingham to  Child Okeford to the east.

The main town is on the north bank, and a bridge connects to the A357 road on the south bank, from  Stalbridge

in the north west to  Shillingstone to the south east towards  Blandford Forum.

This category lists websites for the combined parish based around the original villages of St Ives and St Leonards

which have merged as a residential conurbation north of the A31 into  Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority.

The unitary authority boundary is with  Hurn directly south on Barnsfield Heath, where

Hurn Forest and Moors River are north of Bournemouth International Airport.

At the parish's south east, the A338 road separates Barnsfield Heath from the county boundary with Hampshire,

coinciding with the River Avon.

The A338 separates Avon Heath Country Park from Avon Heath Nature Reserve before a residential area to

the north of Leybrook Common, and south of Ashley and the A31.

North of the A31, the forested area of Ashley Heath separates the built-up area of the parish from  Verwood

on the Hants border further north.

Ashley Heath is connected to  Three Legged Cross to the north west, and  West Moors is directly west.

Ferndown is south of the A31 where it forks to the A347 leading south west.

Before the unitary authorities were established, St Leonards and St Ives parish was in East Dorset, but

is in the Westminster parliamentary constituency of Christchurch.

Addresses have the postcode starting BH24 after Bournemouth, yet the postal town of Ringwood in Hants.

Swanage is a town and parish at the eastern point of the Isle of Purbeck.

The A351 road serves the town from  Corfe Castle.

A minor road connects Swanage with  Studland to the north.

Swanage parish includes Durlston Head on the south coast, then Langton Matravers is next to the west,

then  Worth Matravers before Kimmeridge represented by the Corfe Castle category.

This category represents the small valley between  Cattistock and  Cerne Abbas, down which Sydling Water

flows from chalk downs south of  Batcombe into the River Frome at Stratton, north west of  Charminster.

The parish of Sydling St Nicholas includes the hamlet of Up Sydling.

This category leads to websites about the parish of Symondsbury in  West Dorset.

The parish stretches through the hills north of  Chideock to include Broadoak south of the boundary at

Filford at the head of  Marshwood Vale and west of Salway Ash in the parish of  Netherbury, where

the River Simene forms the eastern parish boundary, as it flows south, east of the village of Symondsbury.

On the eastern bank, Allington parish is represented by  Bridport where the River Simene flows east, to join the River Brit.

South of Bridport town, the River Brit forms the eastern Symondsbury parish boundary, before flowing south to the harbour at  West Bay.

East of West Bay, West Cliff and Eype Mouth are within Symondsbury parish, as are the hamlets of Lower and Higher Eype.

Tarrant Gunville is a village, and North Dorset parish where the River Tarrant rises from the

Cranborne Chase hills, which separate the village from  Ashmore to the north.

A minor road through Stubhampton leads to  Iwerne Minster in the Iwerne Valley to the west.

The River Tarrant flows south through the village of Tarrant Hinton on the A354 road north east of  Pimperne.

The River Tarrant continues south, but whereas this category represents the parish of Tarrant Hinton, the

East Dorset parishes of Tarrant Launceston, Tarrant Monketon, Tarrant Rawston and Tarrant Rushton are

represented by  Tarrant Keyneston, before the river confuence with the Stour at Tarrant Crawford.

South east of the A354, websites are listed in the East Dorset parish of  Gussage St Michael.

North of the A354, the hamlets of Gussage St Andrew and Michinigton are in the East Dorset parish of  Sixpenny Handley.

Until there are separate categories, this category includes websites for the North Dorset parishes of Chettle and Farnham.

Tarrant Keyneston is a North Dorset parish, and village north east of Tarrant Crawford, a hamlet and parish

whose western boundary is the confuence of the River Tarrant with the Stour.

The River Tarrant flows from Tarrant Rushton the next parish to the north east.

Besides these parishes, this category lists websites for the North Dorset parishes, Tarrant Monketon and

Tarrant Launceston south of the A354 road, and east of  Blandford Forum.

Tarrant Hinton is on the A354, north east of  Pimperne, and is represented by  Tarrant Gunville

from which the River Tarrant flows south from the Cranborne Chase hills.

This category represents the area south of the River Axe boundary with Somerset, south of Tatworth

in  South Somerset and north of  Hawkchurch, East Devon.

The nearest town within West Dorset is  Broadwindsor directly east.

  Marshwood separates the parishes of Thorncombe and Wooton Fitzpaine to the south.

This category represents the area in the north of West Dorset, south west of  Sherborne

south of the River Yeo which forms the boundary of Thornford parish with Bradford Abbas.

( where websites are currently listed under Sherborne.)

The parish of Clifton Maybank separates Thornford from the county boundary, where Stoford

is in the parish of Barwick which with East Coker is in  South Somerset.

Websites for Beer Hacket parish, south of Thornford may also be listed here, whereeas those for

Ryme Intrinseca to the south west are listed in the  Yetminster category.

Three Legged Cross is an expanding settlement in south of the East Dorset parish of  Verwood, north of  West Moors.

Ashley Heath to the east is in the combined parish of  St Leonards and St Ives.

This category includes websites for the west of Ashley Heath to Horton Heath.

in the parish of  Horton, which includes websites for Woodlands to the north west.

Tolpuddle is a settlement on the north bank of the River Piddle, now bypassed by the A35 trunk road, from  Bere Regis to  Puddletown to the east.

The River Piddle flows from Puddletown, eastwards north of Bryantspuddle, in the combined parish of  Affpuddle and Turner Puddle.

Tolpuddle parish extends north of the A35, before Weatherby Castle, at the top of the hill separating  Milborne St Andrew.

The parish south of the Piddle and Southover Heath is Tincleton represented by  Stinsford.

Websites for the parish of Athelhampton separating Puddletown and Tolpuddle may be listed here.

This category leads to websites for area attractions and resources for those travelling in the county, including tourist guides, holiday accommodation (Accommodation or its sub-categories) such as Hotels, Bed and Breakfast or Self-Catering.  Listing at county level is for websites dealing with more than one location in the county.

Priority is given to listing websites in their locality category where available,

but this may mean those categories are too small to justify a Travel and Tourism

subcategory, linked from here.

By clicking the  Regional Tree View  symbol, at the end of the path, then those localities and websites will be revealed.

Verwood is a town and East Dorset parish, on the Hampshire boundary at Ringwood Forest.

The B3081 takes road traffic from  Wimborne St Giles in the north west to the A31 at  Ashley,

where the River Avon is the boundary with  Ringwood.

The B3072 takes road traffic from the town centre south to  Three Legged Cross.

Woodlands parish directly west, is represented by the  Horton category.

Edmondsham parish is directly north west, represented by the  Cranborne category.

This category represents the Dorset town of Wareham on the west extremes of Poole Harbour

through which the River Piddle flows, separating Northport and the South.

The larger River Frome flows to the south of the town having a tidal confluence with the Piddle to the east.

The Piddle flows from the combined parish of  Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle, though the parish of

Bere Regis extends to Wareham's west boundary from the north west.

Wareham is served by the A351 through  Sandford to  Wool, between which a railway also runs.

South, across the Frome, the A351 turns south east to be the major road on the Isle of Purbeck

to Swanage, via  Corfe Castle.

West Bay, spans the mouth of the River Brit south of  Bridport on the  Jurassic Coast

between  Eype Mouth and  Burton Bradstock to the east.

West Bay village is within the parish of Bridport, but this category includes websites for Walditch, Wych, and

the rest of Bothenhampton parish, which has its western boundary along the B3157 and A35 east of Bridport,

where its northern boundary is with  Loders, then  Shipton Gorge is to the north east.

West Moors is a town, immediately north of  Ferndown, where the A31 bypass forms the parish boundary.

Moors River forms the eastern boundary with St Leonards, and the industrial area to the north is represented by the  Three Legged Cross category.

Horton is to the north west, and Holt is rirectly east, represemted by  Colehill.

West Parley is a parish and town south of the A348 road, and  Ferndown, formerly in East Dorset District.

The southern parish boundary coincides with the River Stour, with  Poole immediately south.

The eastern boundary is with  Hurn and Bournemouth airport.

The B3073 road leads from East Parley, past Dudsbury Castle, Longham, Hampreston and

Little Canford at the south of the parish to  Colehill and  Wimborne Minster.

West Stafford is a village on the south bank of the River Frome with its parish boundary on the eastern edge of  Dorchester.

Besides West Stafford, this category represents the parish of Woodsford, with a smaller village on

the Frome further east, which has the original West Dorset boundary with  Moreton directly east.

Tincleton parish is to the north of the Frome, which is represented by  Stinsford.

The parishes of West Knighton to the south, and Warmwell to the south east are represented by  Broadmayne.

Crossways is directly east.

West Stour is a village and North Dorset parish on the west bank of the River Stour, on the A30 from  Shaftesbury to  Henstridge.

East Stour is immediately to the east across the Stour.

Buckhorn Weston is the parish immediately up stream on the west bank, which also represents

websites for Kington Magna parish immediately north west.

Fifehead Magdalen is immediately downstream on the west bank, and websites for this parish may be listed here.

Weymouth: is a seaside town and holiday resort on the south coast.

To the south west it is joined to the penisula of  Portland

by the suburb of  Wyke Regis.

The former borough includes communities west of  Osmington, which are included within the topical categories here, namely

Bowleaze, Overcombe, Preston, Sutton Poytnz, Littlemoor, Bincome, Upwey, Broadwey, Nottington, Broadwey, RedlandsRadipole,Westham, Lanehouse,

Charlestown, represented by  Checkerell further west.

Wimborne Minster is a town, immediately north of  Poole and the northern area

of BCP Council represented by  Canford Magna.

The River Stour forms the UA boundary south of the town, and the River Allen flows through the west of the town to join it.

North west of the town the Allen forms the western parish boundary with Pamphill, represented by  Shapwick further west.

The hamlet of Furzehill is at the north of the town before the western limits of the parishes of Holt and Hinton on the

east bank of the River Allen, represented by  Colehill, which extends around the east of Wimborne Minster.

Wimborne St Giles is a village and East Dorset parish, spanning the source of the River Allen, south east

of  Sixpenny Handley and east of  Gussage St Michael, which with Gussage All Saints is west

of the Allen, whereas  Horton with Woodlands is on the east bank to the south.

Cranborne is directly east.

East Knighton is a hamlet on the A352 from  Wool, before entering West Dorset, at  Owermoigne.

Is in the former Purbeck district parish of Winfrith Newburgh, which gives its name to a larger village

south of the A352, with a minor road leading to  Lulworth Cove, via West Lulworth.

Winterborne Stickland is a village and North Dorset parish separated from  Blandford Forum to the east by

Bryanston which is represented by  Durweston to the north east.

This category represents the River Winterborne valley, which includes parishes of Winterborne Houghton

and Winterborne Clenston down stream to Winterborne Whitechurch on the A354,

between  Blandford St Mary and  Milborne St Andrew to the south west.

The valley to the west is represented by  Milton Abbas.

Winterborne Zelston is the last parish in former North Dorset, before the River Winterborne forms the

northern boundary of Morden, and flows north east to  Sturmer Marshall, where it enters the River Stour.

Besides Winterborne Zelston, this category lists websites for parishes of Anderson and

Winterborne Kingston upstream, south east of Winterborne Whitechurch.

Winterborne Zelston is on the A31 road bypassing Sturmer Marshall in the east,

leading to  Bere Regis to the south west.

Winterborne Abbas is a village and West Dorset parish in a valley on the A35 road, 5 miles west of  Dorchester.

Winterborne Abbas is administrered as a combined parish with Winterbourne Steepleton, which has

a village to the south east, and stretches south west towards Portesham Hill, represented by the  Portesham category.

The area west of Winterborne Abbas south of the A35 is  Litton Cheney, whereas to the north of the A35 is represented by the  Askerswell category..

Witchampto­n is a village, and East Dorset parish, on the west bank of the River Allen,

south of Moor Crichel, and  Gussage All Saints.

Downstream, Pamphill is represented by  Shapwick further south west.

Across the Allen to the east, Hinton is represented by  Colehill, then upstream

Chalbury and Woodlands are represented by  Horton.

Wool is a village and parish, at the western edge of the former Purbeck district,

on the A352 from  Wareham, before entering West Dorset, at  Owermoigne.

Wool parish includes East Burton and Dorset Innovation Park to the west before

Redbridge in the parish of  Crossways to the west.

The area to the south, Coombe Keynes and east south of the River Frome is

represented by the  East Stoke category.

This category represents the area of West Dorset on the boundary with East Devon north of 

Lyme Regis,  Charmouth and Catherston Leweston.

The parish of Wootton Fitzpaine includes Monkton Wyld, on the boundary with Raymond's Hill

to the west, to its most westerly point north of  Uplyme, east of  Axminster

and south of  Hawkchurch.

Fishpond Bottom is on the north edge of Wootton Fitzpaine parish, whereas 

Marshwood parish represents websites for further north east.

The next parish to the east is Whitchurch Canonicorum, which is represented by the  Morcombelake category.

Worth Matravers is a village and most southerly parish on the Isle of Purbeck,

which is separated by Langton Matravers from  Swanage to the east.

Worth Matravers parish stretches inland to include Herman's Cross, whereas

Kingston is an inland village to the west in the parish of  Corfe Castle.

Corfe Castle parish stretches to the south coast before  Kimmeridge, the next parish to the west.

This category lists websites for the south coast

between Egmont Point and Durston Nature Reserve.

This category represents the southern tip of  Weymouth to Ferry Bridge, before

the  Fortuneswell area of the  Isle of Portland.

The sea front to the west is into The Fleet, protected on the west by  Chesil Beach.

To the east, Portland Harbour, includes the remains of Sandsfoot Castle at Castle Cove.

Websites identifying as Southlands or Rodwell with their coastline within Portland Harbour,

south of the mouth of the River Wey may be listed here.

Websites for Charlestown to the north west should be listed in the  Chickerell category.

Yetminster is a town, south east of  Yeovil, separated from the A37 by the West Dorset parish of Ryme Intrinseca.

This category represents both parishes, whereas the parish of Beer Hacket to the north east is represented by the  Thornford category.

Yetminster railway station is to the east of the town, where the road leads to the parish of Holnest

before  Glanviles Wootton.

The parish of  Chetnole is directly south.