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Clubs and social venues in Dorchester

GetBrent lists 6 clubs and social venues in Dorchester, Dorset, including Came Down Golf Club, Colliton Club and Dorchester Rugby Football Club. Each listing shows what they offer, their phone number and where they are, and the owner can update it free at any time. Dorset Council area has 1,035 cafes, restaurants, pubs and takeaways among 18,000 business sites (ONS UK Business Counts, March 2026).

6 clubs and social venues listed in Dorchester

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South Street, Dorchester: shops and businesses that take card payments
South Street, Dorchester (2020). Photo: Malc McDonald, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Geograph.

Dorchester in numbers

Dorset Council area has 1,035 cafes, restaurants, pubs and takeaways among 18,000 business sites (ONS UK Business Counts, March 2026).

Dorchester is Dorset's county town and its biggest shopping centre outside the BCP towns, with Poundbury on its western edge.

  • Shoppers spent an estimated £107m on retail in Dorchester town centre in 2025, and the town centre takes 3.1% of all Dorset comparison spending, the highest share of any location in the county. source
  • A footfall counter on South Street recorded 122,751 visits in February 2024 and 148,120 in August 2024. source
  • The town centre has 424 units with 67 vacant (15.8%); 190 are independents and 77 are national chains. source
  • There is a weekly covered market at Fairfield car park, and about 1,700 public parking spaces. source

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How many clubs and social venues are there in Dorchester?

GetBrent lists 6 clubs and social venues in Dorchester. For the wider area, Dorset Council area has 1,035 cafes, restaurants, pubs and takeaways among 18,000 business sites (ONS UK Business Counts, March 2026). The ONS groups related trades together, so that figure is for the whole group.

How do I list my club or social venue in Dorchester on GetBrent?

Sign up free at getbrent.co.uk/vendor/signup, choose "Another kind of business", pick "Clubs and social venues" as your type and add your town. The listing goes live straight away and you can add opening hours, services, photos and FAQs from your dashboard. The Free plan has no monthly charge.

What does a card machine cost a club or social venue in Dorchester?

It depends on monthly card takings and average payment size. GetBrent compares the published fees of the main UK providers for clubs and social venues in Dorchester, with a calculator for your own figures, on its card machine page for Dorchester.

Where can a club or social venue in Dorset get free business support?

Free one-to-one business support is available from Business Growth Dorset, the Growth Hub covering Dorset and BCP.

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Listings come from the businesses themselves and from open data: Food Standards Agency food hygiene ratings (Open Government Licence v3.0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). Owners can claim and update their listing free. Local figures: ONS UK Business Counts (March 2026), read 26 October 2026. GetBrent may be paid by partners marked Ad.