Weymouth and Portland

50°34′00″N 2°27′15″W / 50.5666°N 2.4541°W / 50.5666; -2.4541

Weymouth and Portland Borough of Weymouth and Portland
Non-metropolitan district and borough
Coat of arms
Weymouth and Portland shown within Dorset
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	South West England
Non-metropolitan county	Dorset
Admin HQ	Weymouth
Incorporated	1 April 1974
Abolished	1 April 2019
Government
• Type	Non-metropolitan district council
• Body	Weymouth and Portland Borough Council
• Leadership	Leader & Cabinet ( )
• MPs	Richard Drax
Area
• Total	16.1 sq mi (41.8 km2)
Population  (mid-2018)
• Total	65,800
• Density	4,100/sq mi (1,600/km2)
• Ethnicity	98.5% White
Time zone	UTC0 (GMT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (BST)
ONS code	19UJ (ONS) E07000053 (GSS)
OS grid reference	SY6784374258
Website	www.weymouth.gov.uk

Weymouth and Portland was a local government district with borough status in Dorset, England from 1974 to 2019. It consisted 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.

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.^[1]

Weymouth and Portland have been twinned with the town of Holzwickede in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, since 1986,^[2] and the French town of Louviers, in the department of Eure in Normandy, since 1959.^[3]