Museums in Dorchester Dorchester is lucky to have many different museums to visit, all dotted close to the Town Centre. At the top of town there is The Keep Military Museum which is housed in a spectacular old Keep and easy to spot as you arrive in Dorchester from the West. Further down the main road on the left is the Dorset County Museum, again, housed in another beautiful building. From there,... 

Dorchester, the county town of Dorset sits on the banks of the River Frome and the between the towns Bridport and Weymouth. Dorchester is an historic market town and is probably best known for being the home and birthplace of the nineteenth century novelist and poet, Thomas Hardy. While he lived in Dorchester Hardy wrote his famous book ‘Far From the Madding Crowd’, but many people remember him... 

The latest new development in Dorchester which occupies the site of the old brewery, previously run by Eldridge Pope, a local brewing family, they sold out to Marstons and the land is now being put to better use in this excellent development.  Read More →