List of boroughs in Dorset

The following were historically ancient boroughs in the county of Dorset.

Boroughs, pre-Conquest

 * Bridport
 * Dorchester
 * Shaftesbury
 * Wareham
 * Wimborne Minster (see also Lapsed boroughs below)

Boroughs, post-Conquest

 * Blandford Forum (from 1605)
 * Corfe Castle (from 1268 or 1576)
 * Lyme Regis (from 1284 or -85)
 * Melcombe Regis (from 1268)
 * Poole (from 1248; a County of itself from 1571)
 * Sherborne (from 1227)
 * Weymouth (from 1252)
 * (Weymouth and Melcombe Regis were joined as a double borough in 1571)

"Lapsed" boroughs

 * Castleton (in Oborne)
 * Charmouth
 * Newton (in Studland)
 * Stoborough (in Wareham Holy Trinity)
 * Whitchurch Canonicorum
 * Wimborne Minster