The Isle of Portland is located on the South coast of England near Dorset. The current population is currently approximately thirteen thousand people.

The Isle and Royal Manor of Portland is the most southerly point of the County of Dorset in England. Famous for its Stone production which has been shipped around the world, and used in some of the most famous landmarks in the world.

From Portland Rover.

There are around 10 Primitive British Goats living wild on the East Weare's of the Isle and Royal Manor of Portland. They were introduced to keep vegetation down in the area. They are looked after by Local volunteers who keep an eye on them without actually interfering with them. They are pretty much left to their own devices. They can often be seen standing on top of the old rifle range. (Stone sloping structure)

From The Portland Rover.

Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and is Oregon's capitol city. It sits near two rivers.

The United States has 14 states with cities named Portland: Maine, Oregon, Texas, Tennessee, North Dakota, Indiana, Connecticut, Michigan, Arkansas, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, and Kentucky. These 14 cities, all named Portland, range from urban large cities to small and sometimes rural locations.

There is also a Portlandville in New York, and a Portland Mills in Pennsylvania.

In colonial US times, the name Portland may have come from colonists' knowledge about the Isle of Portland, England.

In 1824 Joseph Aspdin, a British stonemason, obtained a patent for a cement he produced in his kitchen. The inventor heated a mixture of finely ground limestone and clay on his kitchen stove and ground the mixture together into a powder to create a hydraulic cement-one that hardens with the addition of water. He named the product Portland cement because it resembled a stone quarried on the Isle of Portland, off the British coast. With this invention, Aspdin laid the foundation for today's Portland cement industry.