Weymouth
Weymouth is a seaside resort town in Dorset, a county on the south coast of the West Country, in England. Visitors are attracted by its harbour and position, approximately halfway along the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site, important for its geology and landforms.Photo: Steinsky, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Caroline Granycome, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Weymouth railway station
Railway station
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Weymouth railway station is the main railway station serving the town of Weymouth, Dorset, England.
Sandsfoot Castle
Photo: Ajsmith141, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sandsfoot Castle, also known historically as Weymouth Castle, is an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII near Weymouth, Dorset.
Tudor House Museum
Museum
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The Tudor House Museum, 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.
Localities in the Area
Overcombe
Suburb
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Overcombe is an coastal area in Preston in south Dorset, England, situated on top of cliffs 2 miles northeast of Weymouth.
Wyke Regis
Village
Photo: Carl Whitehouse, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wyke Regis is a village in south Dorset, England. The village is part of the south western suburbs of Weymouth, on the northern shore of Portland Harbour and the south-eastern end of Chesil Beach.
Weymouth
- Type: Town with 57,700 residents
- Description: town in Dorset, England
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Weymouth and Portland District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.6096° or 50° 36' 35" northLongitude
-2.4543° or 2° 27' 16" westPopulation
57,700Elevation
-2 metres (-7 feet)United Nations Location Code
GB WEYOpen Location Code
9C2VJG5W+V7OpenStreetMap ID
node 1594024414OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2634202Wikidata ID
Q661619Weymouth Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- 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
- English: Weymouth, Dorset
- Esperanto: Weymouth
- French: Weymouth
- German: Weymouth
- Greek: Γουέιμουθ
- Gujarati: વેમાઉથ
- 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
- Lithuanian: Veimutas
- Macedonian: Вејмут
- Norwegian: Weymouth
- Norwegian Bokmål: Weymouth
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Weymouth
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Weymouth i Dorset
- 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, Dorset
- Spanish: Weymouth
- Swedish: Weymouth
- Swedish: Weymouth Harbour
- Tamil: வெய்மௌத்
- Tatar: Веймус
- Telugu: వేమౌత్
- Ukrainian: Веймут
- Urdu: وییموود
- Volapük: Weymouth
- Welsh: Weymouth
- Western Frisian: Weymouth
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