The following description and brief history of Dorchester, Dorset, England is taken from ‘Black’s Guide to Dorsetshire’ By Adam and Charles Black Published in 1872
CHARMOUTH (population, 664. Inns: Coach and Horses, The George), chiefly built upon the low land watered by the Char (which rises at Lewesdon Hill, 9 miles distant), and rambling along the sea-shore, but not altogether disdaining the beautiful prospects afforded by the hill — the “Plinlimmon of Dorset” — which rises in the rear, and whose slopes are now dotted with many pleasant villas.
