List of boroughs in Dorset

List of boroughs in Dorset

List of Dorset Boroughs

The following were historically boroughs in the county of Dorset.

Boroughs, pre-Conquest

*Bridport
*Dorchester
*Shaftesbury
*Wareham
*Wimborne Minster (see also "Lapsed boroughs" below)

Boroughs, post-Conquest

*Blandford Forum (from 1605)
*Corfe Castle (from 1268 or 1576)
*Lyme Regis (from 1284 or -85)
*Melcombe Regis (from 1268)
*Poole (from 1248; a County of itself from 1571)
*Sherborne (from 1227)
*Weymouth (from 1252):(Weymouth and Melcombe Regis were joined as a double borough in 1571)

"Lapsed" boroughs:

*Castleton (in Oborne)
*Charmouth
*Newton (in Studland)
*Stoborough (in Wareham Holy Trinity)
*Whitchurch Canonicorum
*Wimborne Minster

ee also

*List of hundreds in Dorset
*List of liberties in Dorset
*List of sanitary districts in Dorset
*List of Poor Law Unions in Dorset


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