PhotoTour: Weymouth

Poole Navigation Minehead
Map Ref: SY680792 (locate via StreetMap)
Distances: Poole: 41m 65km, Minehead: 589m 942km

Weymouth	Dorset

Today Weymouth is a busy port town, with regular ferry sailings to the Channel Islands. But it was not always so.

Weymouth's claims to fame include it being the point of entry for the Black Death in 1348. But by the middle of the eighteenth Century it was a small unimportant fishing village frequented by smugglers.

In July 1789 King George III was recommended to go to Weymouth and to bathe as a cure for biliousness. Fanny Burney wrote; ``The King bathes and with great success. A machine follows the Royal One into the sea filled with fiddlers who play God Save the King as His Majesty takes his plunge.'' The sea was no longer unfashionable, moreover it was healthy.

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