Local authority · E07000052
West Dorset
No longer in useWest Dorset was a local authority in England, published in boundary releases from December 2011 to December 2018.
The December 2018 boundary, generalised to about 100 m.
- Code
- E07000052
- Kind
- Local authority
- Area
- 1,079 km²
- In use
- 2011 to 2018
Where it sits
Ceremonial countyDorset
CountryEngland
Neighbours
5 local authorities share a border with West Dorset, longest border first.
- South Somerset 78.8 km
- North Dorset 57.6 km
- Weymouth and Portland 26.0 km
- East Devon 21.8 km
- Purbeck 21.4 km
Data published for it
1 of the Atlas's datasets publish figures for West Dorset itself.
Ask the API
Everything on this page comes from the UK Data Atlas API's geography resolver. These requests return it, for the December 2018 release.
- The areaDocs
GET/v1/areas/localAuthority/2018-12-uk-bgc/E07000052 - Its boundaryDocs
GET/v1/areas/localAuthority/2018-12-uk-bgc/E07000052/geometry?tier=medium - Its historyDocs
GET/v1/areas/localAuthority/2018-12-uk-bgc/E07000052/history - What it sits withinDocs
GET/v1/areas/localAuthority/2018-12-uk-bgc/E07000052/parents - What it containsDocs
GET/v1/areas/localAuthority/2018-12-uk-bgc/E07000052/children - Its neighboursDocs
GET/v1/areas/localAuthority/2018-12-uk-bgc/E07000052/neighbours - What you can ask about itDocs
GET/v1/areas/localAuthority/2018-12-uk-bgc/E07000052?include=capabilities