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Dorchester is a town located in the county of Dorset. It is a popular place to live in because of its beaches and historic attractions such as Maiden Castle as well as leisure facilities.
Other places of interest nearby include Sandworld Sculpture Park, Jurassic Safari and Shire Hall Historic Courthouse Museum.
BMI The Winterbourne Hospital, Herringston Rd, Dorchester DT1 2DR
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Williams Ave, Dorchester DT1 2JY
Weymouth Community Hospital, 3 Melcombe Ave, Weymouth DT4 7TB
Dorchester is accessible by rail from London Waterloo which is 2 hour and 31 minute away by direct train and by car it is accessible via the M3.
Distance to Airports from Dorchester
Airport
Miles by car
Bournemouth
26.6 miles
Bristol
47.94 mi miles
Southampton
50.12 mi miles
The Thomas Hardye School, Queen's Avenue, Dorchester DT1 2ET
The Sir John Colfox Academy, Ridgeway, Bridport DT6 3DT
Dorset Studio School, Kingston Maurward, Dorchester DT2 8PX
Dorset is a county in the south of England with the English Channel on its southern coast. Its county town is Dorchester although larger cities and towns include Bournemouth, Poole, Weymouth and Ferndown. Dorset has various different types of landscape including clay valleys, limestone ridges and chalk downs. Bournemouth and Poole have their own unitary authorities.
More than 50% of the county is classed as being in an area of outstanding natural beauty. Its coastland in particular has been regarded as very interesting from a geographical/geological perspective, including the Isle of Portland, Durdle Door and Chesil Beach.
Sandbanks, a suburb of Poole, has achieved the heights of having the fourth highest land values in the whole world. Adjacent counties include Hampshire, Somerset, Wiltshire and Devon.
Bournemouth Airport offers scheduled flights to the European mainland and islands. There are no motorways in the county and the main trunk roads are the A303, A35 and A31. Poole offers ferries to France and the channel islands. Bournemouth has two universities, Bournemouth University and The Arts University Bournemouth.
Dorset has more than 30 general and specialist museums, including the Tank Museum at Bovington and the Dorset County Museum in Dorchester. Grade I listed buildings include Portland Castle, a coastal fort commissioned by Henry VIII, and Christchurch Priory, the longest church in England.
Thomas Hardy, the famous novelist, was born in Higher Bockhampton near Dorchester in 1840 - his fictional town 'Casterbridge' is based on Dorchester. Enid Blyton, the children's author, allegedly bought Purbeck Golf Club for £1, using it to go on holiday in Swanage: she apparently based many of her 'Famous Five' books around the Isle of Purbeck and Poole Harbour.
Finally, in the form of the Dorset Naga, the county has a claim on producing the hottest chilli in the world, with an average score of 923,000 Scoville Heat Units.
Affordable Housing Schemes
There are a number of affordable housing schemes in Dorchester to help make buying a property achievable. The work is more complex and we have specialist conveyancing solicitors to handle the following:
Our property solicitors Dorchester have successfully completed numerous conveyancing transactions from start to finish so whether your matter is a comparatively simple purchase for a property in Dorchester or, for example, a Sale and Purchase involving a shared ownership property with a Deed of Trust being executed simultaneously, you can rest assured that by choosing us you are in the right hands.
Dorchester Property Prices
Average property price in Dorchester
£296,712
% Change compared to last year
0%
Population of Dorchester
19,060 (2011)
Property price data is sourced from the Land Registry House Price Index
Conveyancing Solicitors in and around Dorchester
Our Dorchester conveyancing solicitors can help you with your conveyance locally or in any of the surrounding areas including Fordington, Poundbury, Lower Burton, Stinsford , Charminster, Winterborne Monkton and Martinstown.
We have a number of offices throughout England and Wales so you can find a solicitor near you.
Our Dorchester Conveyancing Solicitors have years of experience helping clients with their conveyance in Dorchester and have close connections with Dorchester Town Council to ensure we can get conveyancing searches returned as quickly as possible.
Conveyancing Quality Scheme & On All Mortgage Lender Panels
All of our panel solicitors have been awarded the CQS badge of excellence and can work on with any mortgage lender in England & Wales.
Dorchester Conveyancing Solicitor fees dramatically vary depending on whether you approach an online conveyancing solicitor, a high street conveyancer or housing solicitors introduced by your estate agent.
The actual conveyancing costs, outside of the legal work, should be fixed as they are set including:
For buyers: stamp duty, land registration, property searches, ID searches and leasehold charges (if buying a leasehold property).
For sellers: office copies, title plan and management information (if selling a leasehold property).
It is important to make sure when budgeting the costs of moving home that you factor in all of the above conveyancing costs and ensure you get a fixed fee conveyancing quote from your chosen local solicitors or licensed conveyancer.
Buying a home can be a large investment in itself. The high value of the property should indicate the degree of care needed to investigate if there are any risks or threats to the property and the surrounding area that could affect the value of your investment.
Ordering searches from the Dorchester Town Council is the best way to reveal if there are any hidden secrets or possible issues with the property. These can include pollution, subsidence, planning permissions, preservation orders, radon gas seepage, liability to pay money to the church for disrepair and flooding risks.
We always recommend you book at least four searches; environmental, local authority, drainage and chancel repair. These may flag up additional recommended searches such as Mining, HS2 and Flood Risk Report which your solicitor can advise you on.
You can find out what searches you need when moving home by reading -