Weymouth, Dorset to the main town centre. There are 11 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the borough, which cover an area of , and there are 37 other Nature Conservation Designations. Situated approximately halfway along the Jurassic Coast, Weymouth is a gateway town to the UNESCO World Heritage Site, which includes of the Dorset and east Devon coast that is important for its geology and landforms. The South West Coast Path has two routes around Weymouth and Portland—one around its coast, and one along the South Dorset Downs, which reduces the path's length by . The path is the United Kingdom's
Dorset East and Hampshire West (European Parliament constituency) and South Dorset. The constituency replaced most of Wessex and parts of Hampshire West. It was itself replaced by much of Dorset and East Devon and parts of Itchen, Test and Avon in 1994. These seats became part of the much larger South West England and South East England constituencies in 1999. ! style="background-color: " | Dorset East and Hampshire West (European Parliament constituency) Dorset East and Hampshire West was a European Parliament constituency covering most of Dorset and parts of western Hampshire in England. Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post