Historic Dorset

Historic Dorset

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Welcome to Historic DorsetExplorer

This version of DorsetExplorer gives you access to explorer various historic datasets held by Dorset Council and the Dorset History Centre.

Open the Layer Control on the right to start exploring what we have available.

More is being added all the time. At the moment we have:

Stories and Maps from the Bankes Archive
Historic OS Maps from the late 1800s to the mid 1900s
Historic Aerial Photography from 1947 to the late 90s
Historic England data
Historic Environment data

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