North Dorset

North Dorset, district, administrative and historic county of Dorset, south-central England. North Dorset is an area of rolling countryside diagonally split by chalk downs 400 to 900 feet (120 to 275 metres) high, ranging northeast to southwest, which are in turn breached northwest to southeast by the valley of the meandering River Stour. Blandford Forest is the administrative centre. The district is generally fertile, with dairy cattle and cereals raised throughout. The northerly section of...