5 quirky things you didn't know about Weymouth!


Weymouth is a traditional British seaside town. Beautiful golden sand beach dotted with deckchairs and colorful beach huts and backed by Georgian houses very popular for holidaymakers from the UK and many from the continent. Weymouth’s fine seafront provided an impressive backdrop to the sailing events and captured the hearts of many!  But Weymouth not only beach, Sealife or a water sport, this small town full of history too and interesting facts. 
This is my list of quirky things you didn't know about Weymouth:

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  1. A photograph taken underwater by William Thompson in Weymouth Bay in 1856 is said to be the worlds first-ever underwater snapshot.


Quirky things you didn't know about Weymouth!


2. Two ships – one of them from Bristol - that docked at Weymouth in June 1348 are believed to have brought the Black Death to Britain? It was Melcombe at the edge of Weymouth that first showed signs of the epidemic, believed to have been carried by a sailor recently in Gascony. By the time the first wave of the plague died down (it didn’t die out) about half the population of Britain had succumbed to the disease. Very relevant fact to 2020-2021 situation


 


3. Weymouth beach has been TripAdvisor’s top 10 beaches in the UK in 2018 and was also held higher than many Mediterranean beaches, coming ninth in Europe in 2017. The Weymouth beach is a big with golden sand and with its shallow waters is safe for families.


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4. Do you love a classic game of ‘trivial pursuit’? If so, did you know that most of the questions and answers for the game were researched in the Weymouth public


Quirky things you didn't know about Weymouth!


5. Weymouth is a Happiest place to live.  In 2020 Weymouth took a very respectful 13th place on the list of Happiest Places to live in Great Britain. In UK total of 49071 cities, towns and villages. Weymouth has approximately 364 more hours of sunshine throughout the year compared to the UK average. Not too shabby for a small seaside town.


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