{"id":663,"count":8,"description":"Dorchester (\u00a0\/\u02c8d\u0254rt\u0283\u025bst\u0259r\/ dor-ches-t\u0259r) is the county town of Dorset, England. An 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, 8 miles (13\u00a0km) south.\nDorchester is noted as being home and inspiration to the author Thomas Hardy, whose novels Tess of the d'Urbervilles and The Mayor of Casterbridge were both based on the town.\nIn the 2001 Census the official population of Dorchester was 16,171, although by 2009 this was estimated to have risen to 17,990. In 1991 there were 205 shops in the town.\nDorchester's roots stem back to prehistoric times. Settlements were first based around Maiden Castle, a large Iron Age hill fort that was one of the most powerful settlements in pre-Roman Britain, with varying tribes having existed there since 4000\u00a0BC. The Durotriges were likely to have been there at the arrival of the Romans in 43\u00a0AD.\nThe...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/dorchester\/","name":"Dorchester","slug":"dorchester","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}