As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 23, 1996

   File No.  33-

               SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                     WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
                                
                            Form S-8
                     REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                             Under
                   THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                                


                     DOMINION RESOURCES, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

              VIRGINIA                              54-1229715
(State or other jurisdiction of          (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
Incorporation or organization)

          901 E. BYRD STREET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 23219
                         (804) 775-5700
  (Address of principal executive office, including zip code)
                                
        DOMINION RESOURCES, INC. STOCK ACCUMULATION PLAN
                     FOR OUTSIDE DIRECTORS
                    (Full Title of the Plan)
                                
                                
             L. R. Robertson, Senior Vice President
        W. H. Riggs, Jr., Assistant Corporate Secretary
                    DOMINION RESOURCES, INC.
          901 E. Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219
            (Name and address of agent for service)
                         (804) 775-5700
 (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
                                
                                
              CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE (*)
                                
Title of Each Class         Amount    Proposed   Proposed   Amount of 
of Securities to be         to be     Maximum    Maximum   Registration
    Registered            Registered  Offering   Aggregate     Fee
                                      Price Per  Offering
                                      Share      Price

Common Stock, without par  400,000    $38.00   $15,200,000   $5,241
value   . . . . . . . . .   shares

__________
*Estimated solely for the purpose of determining the registration fee and
calculated in accordance with Rule 457 and based on the average of the high
and low prices reported on the New York Stock Exchange composite tape by The
Wall Street Journal for April 19, 1996.
<PAGE>
                              PART I

       INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

Item 1.   Plan Information

    Not required to be filed.

Item 2.    Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.

    Not required to be filed.


                             PART II

        INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.    Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

    The following documents filed by Dominion Resources, Inc. (Dominion
Resources) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) are
incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof: (i) the Dominion
Resources' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31,
1995; and (ii) the description of the Dominion Resources' Common Stock (the
Common Stock) in the Dominion Resources' registration statement on Form 8-B 
(Item 4), dated April 29, 1983, including any amendments and reports filed for
the purpose of updating such description.

    In addition, all documents filed by Dominion Resources pursuant to Section
13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended 
(the Exchange Act), after the date of the Prospectus and prior to the filing
of a post-effective amendment that indicates that all securities offered 
hereby have been sold or that deregisters all such securities then remaining
unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this registra-
tion statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing such documents. 

Item 4.   Description of Securities.

    Not applicable.

Item 5.   Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

    Not applicable.

Item 6.   Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

    Article VI of Dominion Resources' Articles of Incorporation mandates
indemnification of its directors and officers to the full extent permitted by
the Virginia Stock Corporation Act (the Virginia Act) and any other 
applicable law.  The Virginia Act permits a corporation to indemnify its 
directors and officers against liability incurred in all proceedings, 
including derivative proceedings, arising out of their service to the 
corporation or to other corporations or enterprises that the officer or 
director was serving at the request of the corporation, except in the case 
of willful misconduct or a knowing violation of a criminal law.  Dominion 
Resources is required to indemnify its directors and officers in all such 
proceedings if they have not violated this standard.

    In addition, Article VI of Dominion Resources' Articles of Incorporation
limits the liability of its directors and officers to the full extent permitted
by the Virginia Act as now and hereafter in effect.  The Virginia Act places a
limit on the liability of a director or officer in derivative or shareholder
proceedings equal to the lesser of (i) the amount specified in the corporation's
articles of incorporation or a shareholder-approved bylaw; or (ii) the greater
of (a) $100,000 or (b) twelve months of cash compensation received by the
director or officer.  The limit does not apply in the event the director or
officer has engaged in willful misconduct or a knowing violation of a criminal
law or a federal or state securities law.  The effect of Dominion Resources'
Articles of Incorporation, together with the Virginia Act, is to eliminate
liability of directors and officers for monetary damages in derivative or
shareholder proceedings so long as the required standard of conduct is met.

  The Company has purchased directors' and officers' liability insurance
policies.  Within the limits of their coverage, the policies insure (1) the
directors and officers of the Company against certain losses resulting from
claims against them in their capacities as directors and officers to the extent
that such losses are not indemnified by the Company and (2) the Company to the
extent that it indemnifies such directors and officers for losses as permitted
under the laws of Virginia.

Item 7.   Exemption from Registration Claimed.

    Not applicable.

Item 8.   Exhibits:

  4(i) -- Articles of Incorporation  of Dominion Resources as in effect on
          May 4, 1987 (Exhibit 3(i), Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
          December 31, 1993, File No. 1-8489, incorporated by reference).
4(ii) --  Bylaws of Dominion Resources as in effect on September 21, 1994
          (Exhibit 3(ii), Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31,
          1994, File No. 1-8489, incorporated by reference).
  5  --   Opinion of Thomas F. Farrell, II, Esq., Vice President and
          General Counsel of Dominion Resources, Inc. (filed herewith).
23(i) --  Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP (filed herewith).
23(ii)--  Consent of Thomas F. Farrell, II, Esq. (included in Exhibit 5).
  24 --   Powers of Attorney (included herein).
  99 --   Dominion Resources, Inc. Stock Accumulation Plan for Outside
          Directors (filed herewith).

Item 9.   Undertakings.

   (a) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

   (1)    To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a
post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

          (i) To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the
     Securities Act of 1933;

          (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after
     the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent
     post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
     aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in
     the registration statement;
<PAGE>
          (iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of
     distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or
     any material change to such information in the registration statement;

     Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply
if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by
those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the registrant
pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement.

     (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to
be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein,
and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the
initial bona fide offering thereof.

   (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment
any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination
of this offer.

  (b)  The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the
registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an
employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 13(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the
registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such
securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering
thereof.

  (h) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities
Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of
the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the
registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange
Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the
Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless
in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling
precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether
such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act
and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

                       POWERS OF ATTORNEY

  Each person whose signature appears below hereby authorizes either agent for
service named in the registration statement as attorney-in-fact, to sign on his
behalf individually and in each capacity stated below and file all amendments
and post effective amendments to the registration statement, and Dominion 
Resources hereby confers like authority to sign and file on its behalf.

<PAGE>
                            SIGNATURES
   Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration
statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Richmond, Commonwealth of Virginia, on the 23rd day
of April, 1996.

                                   DOMINION RESOURCES, INC.

                                   By /s/THOS. E. CAPPS           
                                   (Thos. E. Capps, Chairman of the Board
                                   of Directors, President and Chief
                                   Executive Officer)

   Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
registration statement has been signed below by the following persons in the
capacities indicated and on the 23rd day of April, 1996.

           Signature                        Title

/s/JOHN B. ADAMS, JR.                  Director
   John B. Adams, Jr.

/s/JOHN B. BERNHARDT
   John B. Bernhardt                   Director

/s/THOS. E. CAPPS
   Thos. E. Capps                      Chairman of the Board of Directors,
                                       President (Chief Executive Officer)
                                       and Director

/s/BENJAMIN J. LAMBERT, III
   Benjamin J. Lambert, III            Director

/s/RICHARD L. LEATHERWOOD
   Richard L. Leatherwood              Director

/s/HARVEY L. LINDSAY, JR.
   Harvey L. Lindsay, Jr.              Director

/s/K. A. RANDALL
   K. A. Randall                       Director

/s/WILLIAM T. ROOS
   William T. Roos                     Director
<PAGE>

       Signature

/s/FRANK S. ROYAL
   Frank S. Royal                       Director

/s/JUDITH B. SACK
   Judith B. Sack                       Director

/s/S. DALLAS SIMMONS
   S. Dallas Simmons                    Director

/s/ROBERT H. SPILMAN
   Robert H. Spilman                    Director

/s/LINWOOD R. ROBERTSON
   Linwood R. Robertson                 Senior Vice President
                                        (Chief Financial Officer)

/s/J. L. TRUEHEART
   J. L. Trueheart                      Vice President and Controller
                                        (Principal Accounting Officer)
<PAGE>
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 23, 1996

   File No.  33-

               SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                     WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
                                
                            Form S-8
                     REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                             Under
                   THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                                

                     DOMINION RESOURCES, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

              VIRGINIA                              54-1229715
(State or other jurisdiction of          (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
Incorporation or organization)

          901 E. BYRD STREET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 23219
                         (804) 775-5700
  (Address of principal executive office, including zip code)
                                
        DOMINION RESOURCES, INC. STOCK ACCUMULATION PLAN
                     FOR OUTSIDE DIRECTORS
                    (Full Title of the Plan)
                                
                                
             L. R. Robertson, Senior Vice President
        W. H. Riggs, Jr., Assistant Corporate Secretary
                    DOMINION RESOURCES, INC.
          901 E. Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219
            (Name and address of agent for service)
                         (804) 775-5700
 (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
                                
                                
              CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE (*)
                                
Title of Each Class         Amount    Proposed   Proposed   Amount of 
of Securities to be         to be     Maximum    Maximum   Registration
    Registered            Registered  Offering   Aggregate     Fee
                                      Price Per  Offering
                                      Share      Price

Common Stock, without par  400,000    $38.00   $15,200,000   $5,241
value   . . . . . . . . .   shares

__________
*Estimated solely for the purpose of determining the registration fee and
calculated in accordance with Rule 457 and based on the average of the high
and low prices reported on the New York Stock Exchange composite tape by The
Wall Street Journal for April 19, 1996.
PART I

       INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

Item 1.   Plan Information

    Not required to be filed.

Item 2.    Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.

    Not required to be filed.

                             PART II

        INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.    Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

    The following documents filed by Dominion Resources, Inc. (Dominion
Resources) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) are
incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof: (i) the Dominion
Resources' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31,
1995; and (ii) the description of the Dominion Resources' Common Stock (the
Common Stock) in the Dominion Resources' registration statement on Form 8-B 
(Item 4), dated April 29, 1983, including any amendments and reports filed for
the purpose of updating such description.

    In addition, all documents filed by Dominion Resources pursuant to Section
13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended 
(the Exchange Act), after the date of the Prospectus and prior to the filing
of a post-effective amendment that indicates that all securities offered 
hereby have been sold or that deregisters all such securities then remaining
unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this registra-
tion statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing such documents. 

Item 4.   Description of Securities.

    Not applicable.

Item 5.   Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

    Not applicable.

Item 6.   Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

    Article VI of Dominion Resources' Articles of Incorporation mandates
indemnification of its directors and officers to the full extent permitted by
the Virginia Stock Corporation Act (the Virginia Act) and any other 
applicable law.  The Virginia Act permits a corporation to indemnify its 
directors and officers against liability incurred in all proceedings, 
including derivative proceedings, arising out of their service to the 
corporation or to other corporations or enterprises that the officer or 
director was serving at the request of the corporation, except in the case 
of willful misconduct or a knowing violation of a criminal law.  Dominion 
Resources is required to indemnify its directors and officers in all such 
proceedings if they have not violated this standard.

    In addition, Article VI of Dominion Resources' Articles of Incorporation
limits the liability of its directors and officers to the full extent permitted
by the Virginia Act as now and hereafter in effect.  The Virginia Act places a
limit on the liability of a director or officer in derivative or shareholder
proceedings equal to the lesser of (i) the amount specified in the corporation's
articles of incorporation or a shareholder-approved bylaw; or (ii) the greater
of (a) $100,000 or (b) twelve months of cash compensation received by the
director or officer.  The limit does not apply in the event the director or
officer has engaged in willful misconduct or a knowing violation of a criminal
law or a federal or state securities law.  The effect of Dominion Resources'
Articles of Incorporation, together with the Virginia Act, is to eliminate
liability of directors and officers for monetary damages in derivative or
shareholder proceedings so long as the required standard of conduct is met.

  The Company has purchased directors' and officers' liability insurance
policies.  Within the limits of their coverage, the policies insure (1) the
directors and officers of the Company against certain losses resulting from
claims against them in their capacities as directors and officers to the extent
that such losses are not indemnified by the Company and (2) the Company to the
extent that it indemnifies such directors and officers for losses as permitted
under the laws of Virginia.

Item 7.   Exemption from Registration Claimed.

    Not applicable.

Item 8.   Exhibits:

  4(i) -- Articles of Incorporation  of Dominion Resources as in effect on
          May 4, 1987 (Exhibit 3(i), Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
          December 31, 1993, File No. 1-8489, incorporated by reference).
4(ii) --  Bylaws of Dominion Resources as in effect on September 21, 1994
          (Exhibit 3(ii), Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31,
          1994, File No. 1-8489, incorporated by reference).
  5  --   Opinion of Thomas F. Farrell, II, Esq., Vice President and
          General Counsel of Dominion Resources, Inc. (filed herewith).
23(i) --  Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP (filed herewith).
23(ii)--  Consent of Thomas F. Farrell, II, Esq. (included in Exhibit 5).
  24 --   Powers of Attorney (included herein).
  99 --   Dominion Resources, Inc. Stock Accumulation Plan for Outside
          Directors (filed herewith).

Item 9.   Undertakings.

   (a) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

   (1)    To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a
post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

          (i) To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the
     Securities Act of 1933;

          (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after
     the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent
     post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
     aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in
     the registration statement;
(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of
     distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or
     any material change to such information in the registration statement;

     Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply
if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by
those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the registrant
pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement.

     (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to
be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein,
and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the
initial bona fide offering thereof.

   (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment
any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination
of this offer.

  (b)  The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the
registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an
employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 13(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the
registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such
securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering
thereof.

  (h) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities
Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of
the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the
registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange
Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the
Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless
in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling
precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether
such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act
and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

                       POWERS OF ATTORNEY

  Each person whose signature appears below hereby authorizes either agent for
service named in the registration statement as attorney-in-fact, to sign on his
behalf individually and in each capacity stated below and file all amendments
and post effective amendments to the registration statement, and Dominion 
Resources hereby confers like authority to sign and file on its behalf.
SIGNATURES
   Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration
statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Richmond, Commonwealth of Virginia, on the 23rd day
of April, 1996.

                                   DOMINION RESOURCES, INC.

                                   By /s/THOS. E. CAPPS           
                                   (Thos. E. Capps, Chairman of the Board
                                   of Directors, President and Chief
                                   Executive Officer)

   Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
registration statement has been signed below by the following persons in the
capacities indicated and on the 23rd day of April, 1996.

           Signature                        Title

/s/JOHN B. ADAMS, JR.                  Director
   John B. Adams, Jr.

/s/JOHN B. BERNHARDT
   John B. Bernhardt                   Director

/s/THOS. E. CAPPS
   Thos. E. Capps                      Chairman of the Board of Directors,
                                       President (Chief Executive Officer)
                                       and Director

/s/BENJAMIN J. LAMBERT, III
   Benjamin J. Lambert, III            Director

/s/RICHARD L. LEATHERWOOD
   Richard L. Leatherwood              Director

/s/HARVEY L. LINDSAY, JR.
   Harvey L. Lindsay, Jr.              Director

/s/K. A. RANDALL
   K. A. Randall                       Director

/s/WILLIAM T. ROOS
   William T. Roos                     Director
Signature

/s/FRANK S. ROYAL
   Frank S. Royal                       Director

/s/JUDITH B. SACK
   Judith B. Sack                       Director

/s/S. DALLAS SIMMONS
   S. Dallas Simmons                    Director

/s/ROBERT H. SPILMAN
   Robert H. Spilman                    Director

/s/LINWOOD R. ROBERTSON
   Linwood R. Robertson                 Senior Vice President
                                        (Chief Financial Officer)

/s/J. L. TRUEHEART
   J. L. Trueheart                      Vice President and Controller
                                        (Principal Accounting Officer)