county of Dorset, England. A barrier beach called Chesil Beach joins Portland with mainland England. The A354 road passes down the Portland end of the...
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of Portland, Chesil Beach and Durdle Door. The north of the county contains part of Cranborne Chase, a chalk downland. The highest point in Dorset is...
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Isle of Portland. Since then the area has been governed by Dorset Council. Weymouth, Portland and the Purbeck district are in the South Dorset parliamentary...
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Portland Harbour is beside the Isle of Portland, Dorset, on the south coast of England. Construction of the harbour began in 1849; when completed in 1872...
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Tithonian age of the Late Jurassic that is quarried on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England. The quarries are cut in beds of white-grey limestone separated...
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Portland Bill Portland Bill is a narrow promontory (or bill) at the southern end of the Isle of Portland, and the southernmost point of Dorset, England...
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HM Prison Portland is a male Adult/Young Offenders Institution in the village of The Grove on the Isle of Portland, in Dorset, England. It is operated...
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longest escape from custody, having escaped HM Prison The Verne, Isle of Portland, Dorset in December 1955, aged 22-years-old. In November 1955 at the Old Bailey...
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Grantham, Grantham, a public house built in 1780 The George Inn, Portland, Isle of Portland, Dorset, England George Washington Inn, Washington This disambiguation...
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Preikestolen, a cliff in Norway Pulpit Rock (Isle of Portland), an extremity on the Isle of Portland, Dorset Pulpit Rock (The Dalles, Oregon), a rock in Oregon...
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Weymouth, Dorset and the village of Chiswell on Portland. Simon Jenkins rates the view of Chesil Beach from Abbotsbury along the coast to Portland Bill as...
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fallback Portland stone – Limestone quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England Portland Admiralty Roach – Rock type Bowers Basebed Portland Bowers...
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Ashton Memorial in Lancaster. It originates from Independent quarries on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. List of types of limestone v t e v t e...
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Portland Castle is an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, between 1539 and 1541. It formed part of the King's Device...
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Portland Bill Lighthouse is a functioning lighthouse at Portland Bill, on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. The lighthouse and its boundary walls...
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2°25′48″W / 50.541°N 2.430°W / 50.541; -2.430 Portland Museum is a museum on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, southern England. It is located at the southern...
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RNAS Portland (ICAO: EGDP) was an air station of the Royal Navy, situated at the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. It was established in 1917 on the western...
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West Dorset ward of Owermoigne. 2024–Present: The District of Dorset wards of Chickerell, Crossways, Littlemoor & Preston, Melcombe Regis, Portland, Radipole...
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the Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment (AUWE) on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, and passed them to the Soviet Union. Two of the group's members, Harry...
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The Portland Breakwater Lighthouse is a functioning lighthouse located at Portland Harbour, Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. It is situated on the southern...
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4541°W / 50.5666; -2.4541 Weymouth and Portland was a local government district with borough status in Dorset, England from 1974 to 2019. It consisted...
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event of nuclear war. Engadine's homeport throughout her career was Portland, Dorset. During the 1976 crisis in Lebanon she was deployed as part of contingency...
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coast of the Isle of Wight, England Freshwater Bay, Portland, bay on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England Freshwater Bay (Alaska), US Freshwater Bay...
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Portland United Football Club is a football club based on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. In the 2015–16 season, they are members of the Wessex...
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The Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy is a centre for the sport of sailing on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, on the south coast of England...
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Portland Admiralty Roach is a kind of stone from the Isle of Portland used to construct "The Cobb", the well-known seawall at Lyme Regis in Dorset. The...
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book Borstal 80 gives a personal account of time served 1980 to 1981 at Portland Borstal.[citation needed] The British film, Boys in Brown (1949) stars...
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Fortuneswell (redirect from Fortuneswell, Dorset)
Fortuneswell is a village in Underhill on the Isle of Portland, in Dorset, England. It lies on steeply sloping land on the northern edge of the island...
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HMS Osprey, naval air station, (Portland, Dorset, England) ASDIC training; Flag Officer Sea Training; RNAS Portland (Lynx helicopter) HMS Peewit, Angus...
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helicopter company based on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England, at the old Naval Air Station of RNAS Portland (HMS Osprey) providing training and services...
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