* October 6, 1983-The American rock group R. E. M.

* 1983-The cartoon book The End by cartoonist Skip Morrow, about the lighter side of nuclear apocalypse, is published.

* 1983-The first Hollywood film to feature the ninjatō, Revenge of the Ninja, is released in theaters.

* 1983-The GTL gains economy tune 1, 647 cc engine, 5-speed gearbox.

1983-The 1983 Wing opens, designed by Robert Geddes of Princeton.

* 1983-The first international Disney theme park, Tokyo Disneyland, opens in Urayasu, Japan.

* August 1983-The University of Houston changes its name to " University of Houston – University Park " to separate its identity and rectify confusions with other universities in the University of Houston System.

1983-The new land use planning system leads to the announcement of 155 new parks to be designated.

Crewkerne Cricket Club play in the Dorset Funeral Plan Cricket League, whilst Crewkerne Town F. C.

The Dorset and Somerset Canal was a proposed canal in the south west of England.

There are around 31 hill forts in Dorset ; archaeologist Sharples, who undertook excavations at Maiden Castle, proposed that hill forts were used to control agricultural land to support a large community.

To bridge the gap in the county the BBC proposed launching BBC Radio Dorset but this was soon dropped following BBC cut backs.

In the mid 1990s, VicRoads proposed the reconstruction the Boronia and Dorset Roads intersection, with the railway line being located underground and a new railway station built in a concrete cutting — ending the separation of the two halves of the suburb and uniting Boronia.

The Dorset and Somerset Canal was proposed, but very little of it was ever constructed.

Simon Rosedale, the Jewish suitor who had proposed marriage to her when she was higher on the social scale tries to rescue her, but she is unwilling to meet his terms: to use love letters she bought which prove the affair Bertha Dorset and Selden had years earlier.

The proposed idea would see Wiltshire Police merge with Gloucestershire Constabulary, Devon and Cornwall Police, Avon and Somerset Constabulary and Dorset Police to form a ' super police force '.

The butterfly was first discovered in Britain on 15 August 1832, when specimens were taken from Lulworth Cove in Dorset by English naturalist James Charles Dale It was introduced the following year as the Lulworth Skipper ( Thymelicus acteon ), a name that has remained unchanged ; it is the only one of Britain's vernacular butterfly names for which there has never been a proposed substitute.

Due to the importance of Somerset coalfield a branch canal from the main Dorset and Somerset Canal was proposed, and construction began in 1786 following a route from Coleford, Somerset to Nettlebridge through Holcombe.

Portland Admiralty Roach is a kind of stone from the Isle of Portland used to construct " The Cobb ", the well-known seawall at Lyme Regis in Dorset.

Milborne St Andrew is a village in central Dorset, England, situated in a winterbourne valley on the dip slope of the Dorset Downs, straddling the A354 road nine miles north east of Dorchester.

Pentridge is a village ( technically, a hamlet ) in north east Dorset, England, situated on Cranborne Chase on the A354 road ten miles north east of Blandford Forum and twelve miles south west of Salisbury.

Winterborne Whitechurch, also Winterborne Whitchurch, is a village in central Dorset, England, situated in a winterbourne valley on the A354 road on the Dorset Downs five miles south west of Blandford Forum.

The A354 is a primary route in England which runs from Salisbury in Wiltshire to Easton on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, a total distance of.

Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley was born in Weymouth, Dorset, on the south coast of England in 1887.

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** Weymouth and Portland, a local government district of Dorset, including the Isle of Portland

* June 24 – The Black Death outbreak goes into full swing in Melcombe Regis ( modern-day Weymouth, Dorset in England ).

The largest cities and towns are Bristol, Plymouth, Bournemouth and Poole ( collectively the South East Dorset conurbation ), Swindon, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Torbay, Exeter, Bath, Weston-super-Mare, Salisbury, Taunton and Weymouth.

The South Western Main Line runs from London and Southampton to Bournemouth, Poole and Weymouth in Dorset.

The Heart of Wessex Line runs from Bristol in the north of the region to Weymouth on the south Dorset coast via Westbury, Castle Cary and Yeovil, with most services starting at Gloucester.

Image: The tithe barn, Abbotsbury near Weymouth. jpg | The Tithe Barn, Abbotsbury, Dorset ( scene of the sheep-shearing in Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd )

Category: People from Weymouth, Dorset

In Dorset, his birthplace, Thornhill decorated the reredos at St. Mary's Church, Weymouth, with a picture of the Last Supper.

Category: People from Weymouth, Dorset

Portland is south of the resort of Weymouth, forming the southernmost point of the county of Dorset, England.

It is named after Weymouth, Dorset, a coastal town in England.

A historic market town, Dorchester lies on the banks of the River Frome, in the Frome Valley, just south of the Dorset Downs and north of the South Dorset Ridgeway, that separates the area from Weymouth, south.

* The Dorset County Constabulary police station in 1860, west of the Southampton railway, east of Weymouth Avenue and north of Maumbury Rings.

There is an alternative route around Weymouth and Portland along the South Dorset Downs, which reduces the footpath distance by.

Weymouth, Dorset offers itself as ' the gateway to the Jurassic Coast ', Britain's only natural World Heritage Site.

However, troops under Prince Maurice soon arrived and plundered Dorchester and Weymouth, Dorset anyway, leading to heated words between Cooper and Prince Maurice.

for Weymouth, Speaker of the House of Commons, Sheriff of Dorset

Portesham is a small village in the English county of Dorset, situated close to the south coast, between the towns of Weymouth and Dorchester.

James Philip Knight, Baron Knight of Weymouth FRSA ( born 6 March 1965 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for South Dorset from 2001 until 2010, when he lost his seat.

The new railway also partly owned several joint lines: notably the East London Railway, the West London Extension Joint Railway, the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway and the Weymouth and Portland Railway.

In 1682 he was raised to the Peerage of England as Baron Thynne, of Warminster in the County of Wiltshire, and Viscount Weymouth, in the County of Dorset, with remainder to his younger brothers James Thynne ( who died unmarried ) and Henry Frederick Thynne and the heirs male of their bodies.

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