A History of Dorset - Prehistoric to Modern

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  Prehistoric Dorset

  Ancient Dorset from the dinosaurs through to the Iron Age

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  The Romans in Dorset

  The Romans in Dorset from the 1st to 5th century AD

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  Saxon Dorset

  The Age of Wessex and the Saxon kings

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  Medieval Dorset

  From the Black death reaching Britain, through the English Civil War and The Reformation to the Monmouth Rebellion

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  18th/19th Century Dorset

  Whilst many of Dorset's towns blossomed in the Georgian era it was a different story for those in the country

Information on Dorset's history from the Dinosaurs and creatures who's fossils can be found on the Jurassic Coast through to the Georgian and Victorian heydays