Chickerell
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Chickerell is a town and parish in south Dorset, England, situated north-west of Weymouth. In the 2021 census the parish had a population of 6,283. The parish includes the Charlestown neighbourhood and Buckland Ripers hamlet.
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Chickerell
- UK place.unitary_england
- Dorset
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Dorset
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.static_image_name
- B3157 at Chickerell - geograph.org.uk - 351812.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- B3157 road at Chickerell
- UK place.population
- 6283
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021 census)
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SY643804
- UK place.post_town
- Weymouth
- UK place.postcode_area
- DT
- UK place.postcode_district
- DT3
- UK place.dial_code
- 01305
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- West Dorset
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Chickerell parish in Dorset, on the south coast of England. To the west is Chesil Beach & The Fleet lagoon, part of the Jurassic Coast.
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Chickerell is a town and parish in south Dorset, England, situated north-west of Weymouth. In the 2021 census the parish had a population of 6,283. The parish includes the Charlestown neighbourhood and Buckland Ripers hamlet.
==History== Although Roman remains have been found, indicating that there has been settlement in the area for many years, as a modern town, Chickerell is recent and one of Dorset's newest towns. Chickerell has seen much development over the last twenty years.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chickerell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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