Between the two World Wars the funfair filled the Square and the main road to the point where it begins to climb up to the top of the peninsula. Now, with the pressures of modern road traffic, the square islittle more than a huge traffic roundabout.

THE GREAT STORM OF 1824
In 1824, Chiswell was the largest residential area on Portland. Many of the houses were built on Chesil Beach itself despite the exposure of the area to the south-westerley gales from the Atlantic and its history of flooding. On November 22nd, a gale blew up which steadily rose to hurricane force and, by the following day, the hurricane combined with a spring tide threw waves over Chesil Beach into the Fleet Lagoon and beyond. By the end of the day, 32 houses in Chiswell had been totally destroyed and three times that number ruined to where they could not be repaired. Twenty-six people had been either drowned or crushed by the stone of which houses were built. The inhabitants of the village rebuilt their houses and continued to suffer periodic flooding.

So deep was the water flooding Chiswell that a large ship was thrown over Chesil Beach into Portland Harbour beyond. The village of Fleet was destroyed as was the seafront esplanade at Weymouth.

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