Sovereign state United Kingdom Region South West England Admin HQ Weymouth University Weymouth College | Constituent country England Non-metropolitan county Dorset Area 41.8 km² | |
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Status Non-metropolitan district Points of interest Isle of Portland, Chesil Beach, Nothe Fort, Jurassic Skyline, Sandsfoot Castle Destinations Weymouth, Chesil Beach, South West Coast Path, Sutton Poyntz, Easton | ||
Portland bill to bowleaze an aerial journey across weymouth and portland
Weymouth and Portland is a local government district and borough in Dorset, England. It consists of the resort of Weymouth and the Isle of Portland, and includes the areas of Wyke Regis, Preston, Melcombe Regis, Upwey, Broadwey, Southill, Nottington, Westham, Radipole, Chiswell, Castletown, Fortuneswell, Weston, Southwell and Easton; the latter six being on the Isle of Portland.
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- Portland bill to bowleaze an aerial journey across weymouth and portland
- Map of Weymouth and Portland District UK
- Weymouth and portland boat trip
- Politics
- References
Map of Weymouth and Portland District, UK
In Portland Harbour is the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy, where the sailing events at the 2012 Olympics took place. The main reason that the resort was chosen to be an Olympic venue was that the Sailing Academy had only recently been built, so no new venue would need to be provided. Weymouth and Portland's waters have also been credited by the Royal Yachting Association as the best in Northern Europe.
Weymouth and Portland have been twinned with the town of Holzwickede in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, since 1986, and the French town of Louviers, in the department of Eure in Normandy, since 1959.
Weymouth and portland boat trip
Politics
The district of Weymouth and Portland was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, which merged the borough of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis and the nearby Portland urban district. The district is divided into 15 wards for elections—12 of them are in Weymouth, and three are in Portland. Elections take place in a four-year cycle; one third of the councillors in all but three wards retire or seek re-election in years one, two and three, and county council elections are held in year four. Currently the District Council is under the control of the Conservatives.
Weymouth and Portland and Purbeck districts are in the South Dorset parliamentary constituency, created in 1885. The constituency elects one Member of Parliament. The current MP for South Dorset is Richard Drax, a member of the Conservative Party, who was voted in during the 2010 General Election, beating the incumbent Labour MP Jim Knight. Weymouth and Portland, the rest of the south west, and Gibraltar are in the South West England constituency of the European Parliament.