County town and Dorset

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Difference between County town and Dorset

County town vs. Dorset

A county town in Great Britain or Ireland is usually, but not always, the location of administrative or judicial functions within the county. Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast.

Bristol

Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow) is a county in South West England in the United Kingdom.

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County council

A county council is the elected administrative body governing an area known as a county.

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Devon

Devon, also known as Devonshire, which was formerly its common and official name, is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south.

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Dorchester, Dorset

Dorchester is the county town of Dorset, England.

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England and Wales

England and Wales is a legal jurisdiction covering England and Wales, two of the four countries of the United Kingdom.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated Hants) is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom.

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Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight (also referred to informally as The Island or abbreviated to IOW) is a county and the largest and second-most populous island in England.

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Kent

Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Local Government Act 1888

The Local Government Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c.41) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which established county councils and county borough councils in England and Wales.

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Non-metropolitan county

A non-metropolitan county, or colloquially, shire county, is a county-level entity in England that is not a metropolitan county.

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Salisbury

Salisbury is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England, with a population of 40,302, at the confluence of the rivers Nadder, Ebble, Wylye and Bourne.

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Somerset

Somerset (or archaically, Somersetshire) is a county in South West England which borders Gloucestershire and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east and Devon to the south-west.

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Southampton

Southampton is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, England.

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Unitary authority

A unitary authority is a type of local authority that has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area or performs additional functions which elsewhere in the relevant country are usually performed by national government or a higher level of sub-national government.

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West Sussex

West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering East Sussex (with Brighton and Hove) to the east, Hampshire to the west and Surrey to the north, and to the south the English Channel.

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Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a county in South West England with an area of.

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