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Whether George III's passion for sea bathing was a symptom of his eventual madness is uncertain, but it was at the bay of Weymouth that in 1789 he became the first reigning monarch to follow the craze. Sycophantic gentry rushed into the waves behind him, and soon the town, formerly a workaday harbour, took on the elegant Georgian stamp which it bears today. A likeness of the monarch on horseback is even carved into the chalk downs northwest of the town, like some guardian spirit. Weymouth nowadays plays second fiddle to the vast resort of Bournemouth to the east, but it's still an attractive family holiday destination, which manages to be both sedate and gaudy. Just south of the town stretch the giant arms of Portland Harbour, and a long causeway links Weymouth to the strange five-mile-long excrescence of the Isle of Portland . West of the causeway, the eighteen-mile bank of pebbles known as Chesil Beach runs northwest in the direction of Bridport .
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