Weymouth, Dorsetshire


Kearsley's Traveller's Entertaining Guide Through Great Britain (1803):

Weymouth, Dorset.

Its port is injured by the sand; from which circumstance and the rise of Pool, its trade which was once considerable, is now reduced. This decline is, in some degree, compensated by the great resort of persons of all ranks, for the purpose of sea-bathing; for which it is excellently fitted by its remarkably fine beach, and the softness of its air; and their present majesties and the royal family have often resided here for many weeks. A few plain and striped cottons are made here. Here was a chapel, which stood on a hill, whose site is now a bowling-green. The castle stands on a high cliff almost opposite to Portland-castle and commands the bay. It was built by Henry VIII.

Inns: Crown, Golden Lion, King's Head, Bear.

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Quotations
 Chapter 12 
The approach of September brought tidings of Mr. Bertram, first in a letter to the gamekeeper and then in a letter to Edmund; and by the end of August he arrived himself, to be gay, agreeable, and gallant again as occasion served, or Miss Crawford demanded; to tell of races and Weymouth, and parties and friends, to which she might have listened six weeks before with some interest, and altogether to give her the fullest conviction, by the power of actual comparison, of her preferring his younger brother.
 Chapter 13 
Mr. Bertram’s acquaintance with him had begun at Weymouth, where they had spent ten days together in the same society, and the friendship, if friendship it might be called, had been proved and perfected by Mr. Yates’s being invited to take Mansfield in his way, whenever he could, and by his promising to come; and he did come rather earlier than had been expected, in consequence of the sudden breaking–up of a large party assembled for gaiety at the house of another friend, which he had left Weymouth to join.
 

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