Dorchester

Dorchester may refer to:

Geography

Dorchester, Dorset, the county town of Dorset
- Dorchester (UK Parliament constituency), a former parliamentary constituency in Dorset
Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire, a village

Dorchester, New Brunswick, shire town of Westmorland County
Dorchester Parish, New Brunswick
Dorchester, Ontario, a rural community in Middlesex County
Dorchester (provincial electoral district), a former Quebec provincial electoral district
Dorchester Boulevard, former name of part of René Lévesque Boulevard in Montreal

USS Dorchester, the name of several United States Navy ships
SS Dorchester, a War Shipping Administration troop transport ship torpedoed February 3, 1943, noted for four Army Chaplains that gave up their life vests to save others
A fictional 'HMS Dorchester' featured in the Norman Wisdom film The Bulldog Breed
"Dorchester", a nickname for the AEC Armoured Command Vehicle
Dorchester armour, a variant of Chobham armour used on modern battle tanks

Dudley Carleton, 1st Viscount Dorchester (1573–1632), English diplomat
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, a military commander in the Seven Years' War and American Revolutionary War, later Commander-in-Chief, North America, Governor of Quebec, and Governor General of Canada

Historic bishops of Dorchester:
- For the bishops in Wessex, see Bishop of Winchester
- For the bishops in Mercia, see Bishop of Lincoln
Bishop of Dorchester, modern episcopal title
Dorchester Abbey, in Dorchester, Oxfordshire
Dorchester Friary, in Dorset, England

HM Prison Dorchester, a men's prison located in Dorchester in Dorset, England closed in December 2013
The Dorchester, a luxury hotel in London
Dorchester Penitentiary, a medium-security federal prison in Canada
Dorchester Pottery Works, an historic site in Massachusetts

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