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Weymouth & Portland District

Weymouth

Weymouth is a seaside resort town in , a county on the south coast of the , in . Visitors are attracted by its harbour and position, approximately halfway along the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site, important for its geology and landforms.
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  • Type: Town with 55,500 residents
  • Description: town in Dorset, England
  • Also known as: “Weymouth, Dorset”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Weymouth railway station and Sandsfoot Castle.

Railway station
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Weymouth is the main railway station serving the town of Weymouth, in , England; the other is at Upwey, which is located north of the town centre.

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, also known historically as Weymouth Castle, is an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII near Weymouth, . It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire, and defended the anchorage.

Museum
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The , often simply known as Tudor House, is an early 17th-century building, which remains a museum and one of the UK's best preserved Tudor buildings.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wyke Regis and Overcombe.

Village
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is a village in the civil parish of Weymouth, in south , England. The village is part of the south western suburbs of Weymouth, on the northern shore of and the south-eastern end of .

Suburb
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is a coastal area in in south , England, situated on top of cliffs 2 miles northeast of Weymouth. The River Jordan flows in the vicinity.

Suburb
is an area of Weymouth in , England. Situated on the north shore of Weymouth Harbour and originally part of the waste of , it seems only to have developed as a significant settlement and seaport in the 13th century.

Weymouth

Latitude
50.6096° or 50° 36′ 35″ north
Longitude
-2.4543° or 2° 27′ 16″ west
Population
55,500
Elevation
-7 feet (-2 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB WEY
Open location code
9C2VJG5W+V7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1594024414
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2634202
Wiki­data ID
Q661619
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Weymouth” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Weymouth”
  • Arabic: “وايمث”
  • Asturian: “Weymouth”
  • Basque: “Weymouth (Dorset)”
  • Basque: “Weymouth”
  • Bengali: “ওয়েমাউথ”
  • Bulgarian: “Уеймът”
  • Catalan: “Weymouth”
  • Cebuano: “Weymouth”
  • Chinese: “韋茅斯”
  • Chinese: “韦茅斯”
  • Czech: “Weymouth”
  • Danish: “Weymouth”
  • Dutch: “Weymouth”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “وايمث”
  • Esperanto: “Weymouth”
  • French: “Weymouth”
  • German: “Weymouth”
  • Greek: “Γουέιμουθ”
  • Gujarati: “વેમાઉથ”
  • Hebrew: “ויימות‘”
  • Hebrew: “ויימות’”
  • Indonesian: “Weymouth, Dorset”
  • Irish: “Weymouth”
  • Italian: “Weymouth”
  • Japanese: “ウェイマス”
  • Kannada: “ವೇಮೌತ್”
  • Korean: “웨이머스”
  • Ladin: “Weymouth”
  • Latin: “Vimutium”
  • Latin: “Weymouth”
  • Latvian: “Veimuta”
  • Lithuanian: “Veimutas”
  • Macedonian: “Вејмут”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Weymouth”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Weymouth i Dorset”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Weymouth”
  • Norwegian: “Weymouth”
  • Persian: “ویموث، دورست”
  • Polish: “Weymouth”
  • Portuguese: “Weymouth”
  • Romanian: “Weymouth”
  • Russian: “Веймут”
  • Russian: “Уэймут”
  • Serbian: “Vejmut”
  • Serbian: “Weymouth”
  • Serbian: “Вејмут”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Weymouth, Dorset”
  • Slovak: “Weymouth”
  • Slovenian: “Weymouth”
  • Spanish: “Weymouth”
  • Swedish: “Weymouth Harbour”
  • Swedish: “Weymouth”
  • Tamil: “வெய்மௌத்”
  • Tatar: “Веймус”
  • Telugu: “వేమౌత్”
  • Ukrainian: “Веймут”
  • Urdu: “وییموود”
  • Volapük: “Weymouth”
  • Welsh: “Weymouth”
  • Western Frisian: “Weymouth”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Weymouth”. Photo: Caroline Granycome, CC BY-SA 2.0.