EVEN the beach is up for sale – as Weymouth and Portland becomes immortalised on a new Monopoly board.

Landmarks such as the Jubilee Clock, Portland Bill and the Dorset Echo will be up for grabs in a special version of the 77-year-old game.

The Weymouth and Portland edition is being launched today and Winning Moves UK’s Monopoly manager Dan Taylor will canvass the promenade to the town centre to ask the public which local sites should be included.

Landmarks such as the Jubilee Clock on The Esplanade will swap places with London’s attractions in the special edition board, with local people deciding which should be hailed the new top price and exclusive Mayfair and which should be the new Old Kent Road, at the opposite end of the board.

Mr Taylor said: “We are delighted to be making this announcement and are very impressed and taken with Weymouth and Portland’s wonderful landmarks – historic, heritage and contemporary. It was always a case of when not if we would launch a Weymouth and Portland Monopoly.

“Where else can you buy and own your favourite landmark, strolling spot or café or restaurant for just paper money?”

The decision to set the game around the borough comes ahead of Weymouth and Portland’s biggest summer with the London 2012 sailing events taking place.

The first edition of Mono-poly launched in the US in 1935 and is today played in 111 countries in 43 languages.

Weymouth and Portland’s edition will have the same playing pieces, rules and money denomination as the traditional game.

Borough mayor Margaret Leicester said: “If I was playing the game and I had lots of money to spend, I would buy the Portland quarries and then I could keep them as public open spaces and stop any houses being built on them.”

Monopoly: Weymouth and Portland Edition will be available from October.

Nominations for places you would like to see on the board can be emailed to wp@winningmoves.co.uk or send to New Monopoly, Winning Moves UK, 7 Praed Street, London W2 1NJ.

You can also visit the facebook page at facebook.com/weymouthandportland monopoly