Car Hire Weymouth - Mini guide to Weymouth

This seaside town on Britain’s south coast has become one the UK’s premier resort areas. With a great beach, good restaurants and a truly beautiful surrounding countryside, the town is ever popular with locals.

The countryside surrounding Weymouth has been named an ‘Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty’ and has received UN World Heritage Status. From the European Award-winning coastline of dramatic cliffs, quiet coves, shingle banks and sandy beaches, to the patchwork quilt landscape of fields and rolling hills, the variety of scenery in this area is unmatched.

There are many interesting activities to do in Weymouth, and many of them take place at the Brewer’s Quay. This old Brewery has been recently refurbished into a complex with a variety of shops, education centers and a museum. The Timewalk and Brewers Days exhibit in the Quay offer an interactive walk in the past. The Weymouth Museum contains a collection of local paintings and prints from the 18th century to the present and a history of the locale.

For leisure, head to the beach. It has been named the ‘best beach in Britain’ numerous times in the last few decades. Here you can enjoy a pleasant nap in the sun or a summer swim in the Channel. Along the beach are many fine restaurants and hotels.

The renowned countryside around Weymouth can be best explored by car, but the train will also take you the major attractions. One of the nicest villages in the area is Abbotsbury. This village has retained its 17th century main street and is filled with stone-walled thatch-roofed cottages. It is also home to a colony of mute swans that have made this their home for 600 years.

Weymouth can easily be reached by car from London-Heathrow Airport or London Gatwick Airport (2-hour drive). Regular trains also depart from Waterloo station in London.