Modern Dorchester is a delightful, one might almost say a lovable, town, so bright and cheery are its streets, so countrified its air.

Dorchester is a placid Georgian agricultural centre.

39. DORCHESTER (7), the county town of Dorset, on the Frome; was a Roman town, and contains the ruins of a Roman amphitheatre.

Till then, Dorchester in the Thames Valley had been the seat of the Bishop of Wessex, but in that year Kynewalch, the son and successor of Kynegils, completed the church of Winchester, in which he had been crowned, and his father buried, as for the most part were their successors, and there he established a bishop.