page_title: Lyme Regis
section_title: See also
hierarchical_section_title: Lyme Regis / See also
caption_attribution_description: English: Dusk on the Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, Dorset, UK. The ammonite-design streetlamps reflect the town's location on the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage site. The bird is a herring gull, Larus argentatus. Français&#160;: Crépuscule sur la promenade de Lyme Regis, Comté de Dorset (Angleterre). La forme en ammonite des réverbères rappelle la position de la ville sur la côte jurassique (Jurassic Coast), un site classé Patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO. L'oiseau est un Goéland argenté (Larus argentatus).
context_page_description: Lyme Regis is a town in West Dorset, England, 25 miles west of Dorchester and 25 miles east of Exeter. Styled "The Pearl of Dorset", it lies at Lyme Bay on the English Channel coast at the Dorset–Devon border. It is noted for fossils found in cliffs and beaches on the Heritage or Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site. The harbour wall – known as "The Cobb" – appears in Jane Austen's novel Persuasion, the John Fowles novel The French Lieutenant's Woman, and the 1981 film of that name, which was partly shot in the town. A former mayor and MP was Admiral Sir George Somers, who founded the English colonial settlement of Somers Isles, now Bermuda, where Lyme Regis is twinned with St George's. In July 2015, Lyme Regis joined Jamestown, Virginia, in a Historic Atlantic Triangle with St George's. The 2011 Census gave the parish and electoral ward a population of 3,671.
context_section_description: List of place names with royal patronage in the United Kingdom
  East Devon Way
  List of Dorset Beaches
  List of fossil sites
caption: Ammonite-design streetlamps reflect the town's location on the Jurassic Coast
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