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Westham was established as a new suburb of Weymouth from the early 1880s. [1] In 1880, the largely undeveloped Abbotsbury Road, along which Westham was centred, saw the construction of a number of residential properties, a chapel of ease, a schoolhouse and a steam laundry operated by the Weymouth Sanitary Steam Laundry Ltd. [2] The name Westham was decided upon during a meeting of "owners and ...
Abbotsbury elects four of the 15 councillors on Chesil Bank Parish Council. [26] For elections to Dorset Council, it is part of Chesil Bank electoral ward. [27] Historically, Abbotsbury was in Weymouth Rural District from 1894 to 1933, [28] Dorchester Rural District from 1933 to 1974, [29] and the West Dorset district from 1974 to 2019.
Upwey railway station serves the Broadwey, Upwey and Littlemoor suburbs of Weymouth in Dorset, England.The station is situated on the South West Main Line, 140 miles 31 chains (225.9 km) from London Waterloo and on the Heart of Wessex Line, 166 miles 30 chains (267.8 km) from London Paddington.
Houses on Abbotsbury Road. Abbortsbury Road has existed since 1905. [1] The southern part of Abbotsbury Road, named after a Dorset estate belonging to the Earl of Ilchester, was created at the same time as Oakwood Court. [2] Only a few houses were built before World War II (odd Nos 3–9 in c.1924; even Nos 8–10 and 24–28 in the 1930s ...
A line was built from Upwey to Abbotsbury but could not be continued through lack of money. A line was also built from Maiden Newton to Bridport and then onwards to West Bay. A more recent proposal was to build a light railway between Weymouth and West Bay. [12] A rifle range, built around 1907, is situated on Chesil Beach, near Ferry Bridge.
The Abbotsbury Railway was a standard gauge railway line which ran in the west of the county of Dorset in England opening in 1885. Although great hopes of mineral traffic drove the original construction of the line, these failed to materialise and after a quiet existence carrying local passengers and agricultural produce, the line closed in 1952.
Portesham, sometimes also spelt Portisham, [2] is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England, situated in the Dorset Council administrative area approximately 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Weymouth, 6 miles (10 km) southwest of the county town Dorchester, and 2 miles (3 km) northeast of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site at Chesil Beach.
Weymouth (/ ˈ w eɪ m ə θ / WAY-məth [1]) is a seaside town and civil parish in the Dorset district, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. Situated on a sheltered bay at the mouth of the River Wey , 7 miles (11 km) south of the county town of Dorchester , Weymouth had a population of 53,416 in 2021.