Records and archives
The Dorset History Centre holds archives and printed sources relating to the county and its history.
To find out more about the sources held at the History Centre, which includes Dorset's parish registers, visit our collections page.
You might also be interested in:
- Your local registrar or the General Register Office (opens in a new window) – these issue birth, marriage and death certificates, which are not held at the History Centre
- Our Freedom of Information or Data Protection pages, if you are interested in current records not yet transferred to the History Centre
- The Historic Environment team, who hold archaeological information for the county, including the Historic Environment Record
- Dorset's libraries
- Dorset's museums
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Dorset History Centre
The Dorset History Centre is the archives service and local studies library for Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole.
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