Dorset

Dorset
Dorset
Ceremonial county
	Durdle Door on the Jurassic Coast, Bournemouth Pier, and Sherborne Abbey
	Coordinates: 50°48′N 2°18′W / 50.800°N 2.300°W
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	South West
Established	Ancient
Time zone	UTC±00:00 (Greenwich Mean Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+01:00 (British Summer Time)
Members of Parliament	List of MPs
Police	Dorset Police
Ceremonial county
Lord Lieutenant	Michael Dooley
High Sheriff	Callum Bremner
Area	[convert: needs a number]
• Ranked	of 48
Population (2005 est.)	701,900
• Ranked	30th of 48
Density	265/km2 (690/sq mi)
Ethnicity	88.0% White British (2021)
Unitary authorities
Councils	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council; Dorset Council
Districts
	; Districts of Dorset; Unitary
Districts	Dorset; Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole;

Dorset is a county in south England which is by the sea. The biggest towns in it are Bournemouth and Poole. There are other smaller towns, some by the sea, like Weymouth, Swanage, West Bay, the Isle of Portland, Dorchester, Wareham, Lyme Regis, Blandford and Wool.

Location

Dorset is next to Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire. There is a lot of countryside in Dorset, so there are quite a few farmers. Other people work in offices, shops or the holiday business. There are not many factories or industry in Dorset. People come on holiday to Dorset because the countryside and sea is peaceful and pretty, and there are not many big towns and no cities at all. Bournemouth, Poole, Weymouth, Swanage and Lyme Regis are quite famous seaside towns, where most holidaymakers go when they come to Dorset.

Dorset coast

The Dorset coast is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Jurassic Coast. This includes famous fossil sites where Mary Anning collected, and famous landforms such as Chesil Beach.