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Fleet is a small, scattered village and civil parish in south Dorset, England, situated in the West Dorset administrative district approximately west of Weymouth. The village consists of several small settlements—East Fleet, West Fleet, Fleet House and Fleet Common—which are sited on or close to the shore of The Fleet, a brackish lagoon behind Chesil Beach. The name 'Fleet' derives from ''fleot'', Old English for an inlet or estuary. Dorset County Council estimate that in 2013 the population of the civil parish was 60.〔 On 24 November 1824 strong winds and a storm surge caused waves to breach Chesil Beach, and many of the buildings in the village were destroyed.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fleet )〕 Seventy-three years later an old man of the village described the events he had witnessed on that day as a boy:
A new church was built a short distance inland and only the chancel of the old one stands today.〔 J. Meade Falkner's smuggling novel ''Moonfleet'' is set in the village. There is a brass memorial to Falkner in the old church, together with early 17th-century brass plate memorials to members of the family whose name—Mohun—was used in the novel.〔 Moonfleet Manor Hotel—previously Fleet House—is a Georgian building〔 in the west of the parish on the shore of The Fleet. ==See also== * Gore Cove 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fleet, Dorset」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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