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The Isle of Portland lies in the English Channel, 3 kilometres (2 mi) south of Wyke Regis, and 200 km (120 mi) west-southwest of London, at (50.55, − Portland is situated approximately halfway along the UNESCO Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site ; the site includes 153 kilometres (95 mi) of the Dorset and east Devon coast that is important for ...
Main menu. Main menu. move to sidebar hide. ... Isle of Portland (2 C, 135 P) W. ... (10 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Weymouth and Portland" The following 7 pages are ...
The restaurant, which has about a dozen locations in New England, is set to open at 4 p.m. Monday at 35 Pleasant St. in Weymouth. It is opening in the space previously occupied by Golden Dragon ...
The George Inn is a Grade II-listed 18th-century public house on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. It is situated within the village of Easton , at the west end of the hamlet of Reforne. The pub is located close to St George's Church and St George's Centre .
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]
The coastline of the Weymouth Lowlands is dominated by Chesil Beach, which hugs the littoral grasslands in the west before separating from the mainland in the east to form The Fleet, a series of brackish lagoons, and then continuing as a narrow causeway linking the mainland with the Isle of Portland. In the hinterland there are long, rounded ...
Pulpit Rock is a coastal feature at Portland Bill, the southern tip of the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England.Intended to have the appearance of an open bible leaning on a pulpit, [1] Pulpit Rock was formed in the 1870s after a natural arch was cut away by quarrymen at Bill Quarry, and the leaning slab was added. [2]
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