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The Isle of Portland is a tied island, 6 kilometres (4 mi) long by 2.7 kilometres (1.7 mi) wide, in the English Channel. [2] The southern tip, Portland Bill, lies 8 kilometres (5 mi) south of the resort of Weymouth , forming the southernmost point of the county of Dorset , England.
The Royal Manor Theatre Company (RMTC) were established in 1947 as the Portland Dramatic Society (PDS), a group of local residents who wished to return live theatre to Portland after World War II. The society originally used a variety of local venues across Portland and Weymouth, and occupied the Masonic Hall at Victoria Square between 1957-64.
[2] [3] The site is maintained by the Association for Portland Archaeology – a small group dedicated to researching, investigating and excavating on Portland. [ 4 ] Open days have been held on the site, where guided tours take place of the preserved site, showing and explaining the visible remains and artefacts and how Mesolithic people lived ...
The Portland Branch railway refers to a group of lines on the Isle of Portland in the English county of Dorset. The first was the Portland Railway, a tramway with a counterbalanced rope-worked incline. It opened in 1826. It was followed by the Weymouth and Portland Railway, which connected to the main line of the Great Western Railway at ...
The Isle of Portland is a tied island lying in the English Channel less than 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) south from Weymouth, at roughly the midpoint along the Dorset coastline. It measures approximately 4 miles in length and 1.5 miles in width at its widest point.
In 1865, the mainland railway line was extended from Weymouth to Portland. In order to get across the Smallmouth passage, a wooden viaduct was built by 1864. [7] In 1902 a new viaduct was built of steel at Ferry Bridge. [8] The railway closed to passengers in 1952, and goods traffic in 1965, while the viaduct was demolished in December 1971. [8]
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