Dorset Vale is a rural locality near Adelaide, South Australia.

The precise boundaries were set in April 1994 and extended in November 2003 for the long-established name.

Scotts Bottom School opened in 1930, its name was changed to Dorset Vale in 1937 and it closed in 1944.

[4] Dorset Vale includes the Scott Creek Conservation Park.The area would have been used by the Peramangk people before European settlement began in the late 1830s.

The Scott Creek area including Dorset Vale was mined for copper and silver in the 19th century.