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  1. Seaport and resort in Dorset, S England;
  2. population (1991) 46,000. It is linked by
  3. ferry to France and the Channel Islands.
  4. Weymouth, dating from the 10th century, was
  5. the first place in England to suffer from the
  6. Black Death 1348 and was popularized as a
  7. bathing resort by George III.
  8.