scubish.com: Scuba diving Weymouth - Massachusetts - USA

Weymouth is a city in Massachusetts, approximately 11 miles south of Boston.

Get in

Logan International Airport in Boston serves the area.

Weymouth is reached by car from Route 3.

Get around

MBTA Bus 225, , connects to the subway and commuter rail stop in Quincy Center.

See

Abigail Adams House, 180 Norton Street, Phone: +1 781-335-4205. July-Labor Day, Tu-Su. Birthplace of Abigail Smith Adams in 1744. She was the daughter of a local clerygyman, wife of President John Adams, and the mother of President John Quincy Adams.

Town Hall, 75 Middle Street. Built in 1928, it is a replica of the old Massachusetts State House.

Webb Memorial Park, River Street, . A part of Boston Harbor Islands, a national park area, this peninsula reserve has views of Boston and the Harbor Islands, trails for walking, shores for fishing and places for picknicking.

Eat

All the national chains are available in Weymouth.

Napoli Pizza & Sub Shops, 81 Washington Street, Phone: +1 781-331-7701.

Reggio Italian Ristorante, 1037 Main Street (Route 18), South Weymouth, Phone: +1 781 331-4141, . Doesn't look like much from the outside, but very popular.

Sleep

Super 8 Motel, 655 Washington Street, Phone: +1 781-337-5200, .

Arbor Inn Motor Lodge, 750 Bridge Street, Phone: +1 781-337-8070.

Get out

Boston, Plymouth or Cape Cod are likely next stops.

Weymouth is a town in Dorset, England, United Kingdom, situated on a sheltered bay at the mouth of the River Wey on the English Channel coast. The town is south of Dorchester, and north of the Isle of Portland. Weymouth had a population of 51,760 in 2004, and is part of the borough of Weymouth and Portland.

Weymouth and Portland have a history stretching back to the 12th century, with the area playing a part in the Black Death, the settlement of the Americas, the Georgian Era, and World War II.

Whilst fishing and trading in the port has declined in significance since its peak in earlier centuries, tourism has had a strong presence in the town since the 18th century. Weymouth continues to be a popular tourist resort, and the town's successful economy depends on its harbour and the beaches of Weymouth Bay. Weymouth is a gateway town situated approximately half-way along the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, a long stretch of the Dorset and east Devon coast, important for its varied geology and landforms. Weymouth harbour is now home to cross-channel ferries, pleasure boats and private yachts, and nearby Portland Harbour is home to the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy, where the sailing events of the 2012 Olympic Games will be held.

History

Weymouth originated as a settlement on a constricted site to the south and west of Weymouth Harbour, an outlying part of the village of Wyke Regis. A settlement here is not noted until the 13th century, the likelihood being that the town developed from the mid 12th century onwards. By 1252 it was sufficiently established as a seaport to become a chartered borough. Melcombe Regis developed quite separately on the peninsula of land to the north of...