Weymouth is a city in metropolitan
Greater Boston. As of the 2010 census, Weymouth had a total population of 53,743. Weymouth is one of fourteen Massachusetts municipalities that have applied for, and been granted, city forms of government but wish to retain "The town of" in their official names. It is named after
Weymouth, Dorset, a coastal town in England. It is the second-oldest European settlement in
Massachusetts.