Talk:Dorchester, Dorset

Roman baths

Dorchester also has a Roman Baths which they covered with sand and then built a shopping centre over the top of!!!!!! (unsigned) 21:24, 24 April 2005 User:62.252.192.12 (talk)

Judge Jeffreys Lodgings

• Don't think that Judge Jeffreys Lodgings is a mediaeval building -evidence, please?HeartofaDog 00:33, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Please explain the relationship, history:

Dorchester,_Dorset

Dorchester,_Oxfordshire

Thank You.

Hopiakuta 04:13, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Hello - there are two towns called Dorchester, in Britain. One is in the county of Oxfordshire and the other is the County Town of Dorset. I hope this helps. - Ballista 05:03, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Incorrect. Dorchester-on-Thames is a village in Oxfordshire, not a town. Dorchester is a town in Dorset. As for their relationship or connection - I have no idea. For the record, I'd describe them as in England, rather than Britain! White43 15:25, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

This article needs some revision.

I find it a little odd that this article begins with 'Roads', 'Railways' and then 'History'. Surely this should be the other way around.

There is no Anglo-Saxon history of which Dorchester was a very important part of, in fact the history section is very poor.

The Mediaeval section is laughable. Athelhampton House is in Puddletown if anywhere, not related to Dorchester. The Tolpuddle Martyrs were tried in Dorchester, and imprisoned. And Yes. Judge Jeffreys the now restaurant and former residence of the man should get a mention.

There's no mention of the Keep, Dorchester's Military history, the Roman wall at Top o' Town, Eldridge Pope Brewery(and subsequent developments), it's relationship with Fordington and The Dorchester Magpies Football Team!!

Any other ideas? I'd really like to improve this article. White43 22:42, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

"Prince charles designed the estate(of Poundbury)..."!!! Surely not, at most he helped guide the design which according to the Poundbury website (http://www.poundbury.info/) was designed for him (by architect Leon Krier) .195.75.83.25 (talk) 10:21, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Updates

I've enlarged the early history of Dorchester, regarding varying names, the Durotribes, Romans and Anglo-Saxons. White43 14:13, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Daniel Defoe quote

Shame that appears as the header for 17th Century, when it's an 18th Century quote!!! Would be better moved somewhere else or put in an 18th Century section. White43 13:19, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

What does this mean?

"Little evidence exists to suggest continued occupation after the withdrawal of the Roman administration from Britain."

Was the town left empty?

Where the Romans immediately replaced by Saxons?

Or where they first replaced by Celts?

Was it a part of Wessex directly after the first Saxons settled or only later?

Oh, and "little evidence" means that there exists evidence for continued Roman occupation, just not much. I don't think that was intended? If it was, what is it? Or do you mean that some Romans remained but most left? Or that no evidence exists? Please try to be more clear. 82.139.86.4 (talk) 19:10, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Little evidence = the area seems to either have diminished significantly or might have turned into a noble estate, farm, whatever. It means we don't know and it's speculation for which pretty much nobody is able to state a definite "Durnac/Durnovacia was still a major romano-british or british city when the saxons conquered it" or inversely "they took off, left it empty and moved the capital of the durotriges to the Badbury rings", and no, the celts wouldn't have replaced the romans as most of the romans of Britain were britons. 70.55.56.156 (talk) 10:19, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

The Dinosaur Museum: incomplete redirect?

Recently I have been tackling the backlog of articles requiring assessment under the Dorset WikiProject. On the Project's assessment page "The Dinosaur Museum" is listed as one of the articles which is classed as a stub, but which lacks an 'importance' rating, so I clicked on its listing in order to update the assessment, but was instead taken to this page via a redirect. Obviously "The Dinosaur Museum" no longer exists as an article, but the assessment bot used by the Project doesn't seem to be aware of this fact. Any suggestions for correcting the anomaly? PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 14:11, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

P.S. Interestingly, if you search directly for Talk:The Dinosaur Museum, that brings you to The Dinosaur Museum's own talk page, although if you then click on the 'Article' tab, it redirects you to Dorchester, so it's currently a talk page without an article. PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 14:15, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

I don't know if you're aware of this but you can still access the article and its history here [1]. It was possibly an oversight by the admin who redirected the article so I've changed the rating to "class=Redirect". Barret (talk) 17:30, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for attending to this. I notice that The Dinosaur Museum's talk page still exists, albeit in a semi-mothballed state; is this normal after a redirect has been executed (excuse my ignorance)? PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 17:46, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

I don't think there is any official policy regarding talk pages of redirected articles. I used to redirect talk pages together with the article but Wikipedia:Redirect doesn't say much apart from the bottom bullet point in this section. Barret (talk) 18:31, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Dorchester Radio Station

One use of the Duchy owned land to the west of Dorchester (not mentioned) was for the construction of one of Guglielmo Marconi's "Beam Wireless" stations. This was, at the time it was built, a high tech piece of modern electronics, very new to rural Dorset in 1928. During its early years, in 1929, it changed ownership from Marconi to Cable & Wireless and then to the GPO in 1950. The station was part of a world wide network of stations providing communications to the USA, South America, the far east and many other locations. Its modern technology kept it in the fore front of international telecommuincations until satellite communications commenced in the 1960's. Transferring its operations to long distance ship to shore communications, it stayed in business until 1979. It had a number of important visitors in the 1930's including Marconi himself and other radio "pioneers". The distinctive Beam antennas could be seen for many miles around and several were built and renewed in its 50 year lifetime. During WW2 the station was covered in camouflage netting to hide it, at least until a large snow fall wrecked it. During that time a second transmitting station, 'B' station, with 5 extra transmitters was built in the field to the south of the station. The winter of 1947 damaged many of the antenna wires with huge ice loadings. The station employed many local people at all skill levels and provided apprenticeships to young lads (the author being one). 88.111.13.122 (talk) 21:04, 23 January 2012 (UTC) Paul Hawkins