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Isle of Portland

Name: Isle of Portland
Address: GB

50.5500°N -2.4400°W · Q774215

One English word in this atlas traces back to Isle of Portland. It sits in United Kingdom.

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The cement is named for the stone it was said to resemble.

Joseph Aspdin patented it in 1824 and named it for Portland stone, quarried on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, whose colour the set cement recalls.

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