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Portland Port Dorset, Portland is an Island off he south coast. It sticks out from the land a large lump of Rock. Portland Stone used to build most of the big buildings in London in the 19th/20th Cent. Used from pre Roman as a fort, the Romans as a port. In the Victorian times a Fort was built (The Vern now a Prison). A very large Port with a sea wall, as big as Cherbourg, to keep the British navy safe from bad weather.