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Dorset
Description
Settled by Neolithic peoples from France 2000 BC; evidence of Beaker people 1800 BC & Romans until 5th cen.; formed core of Saxon kingdom of Wessex ca. 495 & called Wessex in Thomas Hardy novels; site of Tolpuddle martyrs cry for organized labor 19th century.