Local Businesses

Local businesses in Dorset

Local Businesses lists every kind of business across Dorset by town and type: hairdressers, cafes, restaurants, shops, gyms, spas and more. Dorset has 33,800 business sites in all (ONS UK Business Counts, March 2026).

Towns in Dorset

Beaminster
Blandford Forum
Bournemouth
Bridport
Broadstone
Christchurch
Dorchester
Ferndown
Gillingham
Lyme Regis
Poole
Portland
Shaftesbury
Sherborne
Sturminster Newton
Swanage
Verwood
Wareham
Weymouth
Wimborne

The Square, Wimborne Minster, Dorset: shops and businesses that take card payments — The Square, Wimborne Minster, Dorset (2020). Photo: David Martin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Geograph.

Dorset had about 22.8 million visits in 2024 (2.8 million staying trips and 20.0 million day trips), with £1.73 billion of visitor-related spend supporting almost 30,000 jobs. source

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Listings are added and kept up to date by the businesses themselves or from their own public pages. Local figures: ONS UK Business Counts (March 2026), read 26 October 2026. GetBrent may be paid by partners marked Ad.