Ceremonial county

Dorset

Dorset is a ceremonial county made up of 2 local authorities. Its boundary comes from Ordnance Survey's 2015 edition of Boundary-Line, and each local authority counts as a member of the county holding most of its area. It has no official code.

Its local authorities today. Select one to open its page.

Local authorities

Former members

Wards

85 wards, by local authority.

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 33

Dorset 52

Data for it

See every map of Dorset, with its councils, wards or constituencies coloured by the Atlas's datasets.

Ask the API

The API holds Dorset as a named location, with each member dated, so you can add up data over it or list the areas inside it.

  • The place and its definitionDocs
    GET/v1/locations/dorset
  • Its member councilsDocs
    GET/v1/locations/dorset/members