Parking in Dorchester
We have compiled a list to help with your shopping trip or visit to Dorchester. The following businesses are participating in the Parking voucher scheme. Your first 2 hours of parking in the town’s car parks and at on-street meters will be refunded mostly against a minimum £10 purchase.
Pay for your parking as normal but take the tear off BID parking voucher with you when you leave the parking ticket in the car. Look out for the sticker in the windows of participating stores. Present your parking voucher when you come to pay your bill for goods or services of at least £10 (in most cases).
PLEASE NOTE: If you use an on street parking meter you will only get a single ticket and you need to leave that in your car. You can get it refunded later or on your next visit to town as none of the businesses that accept the parking refund mind what the date is on the ticket!
Dorchester Car Park Map
List of Shops taking part in the Parking Voucher scheme (List updated April 2025)
Al Molo*NEW
Allum & Sidaway
Beds R Uzz
Blundells Shoes
Brewhouse & Kitchen
Box of Porcelain
Campbellwicks Interiors
Chiropody Clinic*NEW
Crafty Cuppa*NEW
Creams of Dorchester
Dinosaur Museum
Divine Ink Tattoos
Dodgson’s DIY*NEW
Doggie Wash
Dorchester Aesthetics
Dorchester Chiropractic Clinic
Dorchester Jewellers
Dorchester Mobility
Dorset Craft Workshops*NEW
Dorset Museum
Down to Earth
Every Cloud
Frank Herrings
Frederick Mabb
Fudges Wool
Galaxy Mobile*NEW
Goldcrest Jewellers
Goulds (all stores/cafe’s)
Great Western Camping
House of Phaedra*NEW
Insight Opticians
Jordans Jewellers
Kitchen Style
Mews Watches Jewellery & Antiques
Mina’s Deli
No.36 Gifts & Lifestyle *NEW
Oxfords Bakery
Posh Partridge
RajPoot
Poppins
Potters Café
SGM Hair
Shire Hall Museum*NEW
Specsavers*New
Steve Bane Fabrics
Sleeping Bear Hotel (Wessex)
Teddy Bear Museum
Terracotta Warriors Museum
The Great Big Escape
The Hair Gallery
The Horse with the Red Umbrella
The Junction
The Pet Shop*NEW
The Potting Shed
The Jewel House
The Secret Garden*NEW
The Works
Trinity Corner Convenience Store
Tutankhamun Exhibition
United Artisans Ltd.*NEW
Venus -Hair/Beauty/Aesthetics*NEW
Vibes
Victoria-Ann Bridal*NEW
Vinyl Van
Vivo Lounge
Wessex Photographic
Wedding Time
Wise Owl Toys
There are many more too just look out for the blue ‘P for free’ signs in the windows or on the tills
