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Lyme Regis is a coastal town in West Dorset, England, situated 25 miles west of Dorchester and 25 mile east of Exeter. The town lies in Lyme Bay, on the English Channel coast at the Dorset-Devon border. It is nicknamed "The Pearl of Dorset." In the 13th century it developed into one of the major British ports. The town was home to Admiral Sir George Somers, its one time mayor and parliamentarian, who founded the Somers Isles, better known as Bermuda.
In 1644, during the English Civil War, Parliamentarians here withstood an eight week siege by Royalist forces under Prince Maurice. It was at Lyme Regis that the Duke of Monmouth landed at the start of the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685.
In the early 1960s, the town's railway station was closed, as part of the Beeching Axe. It was rebuilt at Alresford, on the Mid Hants Watercress Railway in Hampshire. The route to Lyme Regis had been notable for being operated by aged Victorian locomotives, one of which is now used on the Bluebell Line in Sussex.
In 2005, as part of the bicentenary re-enactment of the arrival of the news, aboard the Bermuda sloop HMS Pickle, of Admiral Nelson's victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the actor playing the part of Trafalgar messenger Lieutenant Lapenotiere was welcomed at Lyme Regis.
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Lyme Regis is well-known for "The Cobb", a harbour wall full of character and history. It is an important feature in Jane Austen's novel Persuasion (1818), and in the film The French Lieutenant's Woman, based on the 1969 novel of the same name by local writer John Fowles.
The Cobb was of economic importance to the town
and surrounding area, allowing it to develop as both a major port and a shipbuilding
centre from the 13th century onwards. Shipbuilding was particularly significant
between 1780 and 1850 with around 100 ships launched including a 12-gun Royal
Navy brig called HMS Snap.[3] The wall of the Cobb provided both a breakwater
to protect the town from storms and an artificial harbour.
The centre of Lyme
Regis. Notice the ammonite street light decoration.
Well-sited for trade with France, the port's most prosperous period was from the 16th century until the end of the 18th century and as recently as 1780 it was larger than Liverpool. The town's importance as a port declined in the 19th century because it was unable to handle the increase in ship sizes.
It was in the Cobb harbour, after the great storm of 1824, that Captain Sir Richard Spencer RN carried out his pioneering lifeboat design work.
The first written mention of the Cobb is in a 1328
document describing it as having been damaged by storms. The structure was made
of oak piles driven into the seabed with boulders stacked between them. The boulders
were floated into place tied between empty barrels.
The beach, viewed from
The Cobb end
A 1685 account describes it as being made of boulders simply heaped up on each other: "an immense mass of stone, of a shape of a demi-lune, with a bar in the middle of the concave: no one stone that lies there was ever touched with a tool or bedded in any sort of cement, but all the pebbles of the see are piled up, and held by their bearings only, and the surge plays in and out through the interstices of the stone in a wonderful manner."
The
Cobb has been destroyed or severely damaged by storms several times; it was swept
away in 1377 which led to the destruction of 50 boats and 80 houses. The southern
arm was added in the 1690s, and rebuilt in 1793 following its destruction in a
storm the previous year. This is thought to be the first time that mortar was
used in the Cobb's construction. The Cobb was reconstructed in 1820 using Portland
Admiralty Roach, a type of Portland stone.
The watermill, dating from 1340, has been restored to working order and produces flour which is used in the mill's bakery and also sold in its shop. The water comes from the River Lym (also called Lim), which feeds the mill via a "leat". This runs along a terrace or lynch, hence the description of lynch mill. The Domesday Book records the existence of a mill at Lyme in 1086, so the site could be much older.
The parish church is St Michael's, on Church Street. Its full title is parish church of St Michael the Archangel. It is situated above Church Cliff and dominates the old town. There are three ways to access the churchyard. From Church Street, enter through the archway and up the steps, next to the Boys' Club or from higher up the hill, direct from Church Street. From Long Entry, there is a steep climb either up steps or up the service road in front of the flats overlooking Lyme Bay. Mary Anning is buried here and there is a stained-glass window dedicated to her memory by members of the Geological Society of London, an organisation that did not admit women until 1904.
The town is famous for the fossils found in the cliffs and beaches, which are part of the Heritage Coast—known commercially as the Jurassic Coast—a World Heritage Site. The Blue Lias rock is host to a multitude of remains from the early Jurassic, a time from which good fossil records are rare. Many of the remains are well preserved, with complete specimens of several important species. Many of the earliest discoveries of dinosaur and other prehistoric reptile remains were made in the area surrounding Lyme Regis, notably those discovered by Mary Anning (1799–1847). Significant finds include Ichthyosaur, Plesiosaur, Dimorphodon, Scelidosaurus (one of the first armoured dinosaurs) and Dapedium. The town now holds an annual Mary Anning Day. A fossil of the world's largest moth was discovered in 1966 at Lyme Regis.
Eleanor Coade (alternatively Elinor Coade) (1733 - 1821) (when she went into business, to be respectable she followed the normal practice of the day and called herself 'Mrs Coade', although unmarried) is famous for inventing and manufacturing Coade stone: a spectacularly durable cement-like building material which still looks new even today. She was a resident of Lyme Regis, in Dorset, England. She took over Belmont House, Lyme Regis, from her uncle, in 1784, which later became the home of author John Fowles (1926 - 2005). She had a great deal of ornate Coade stone work done on the house. The house and its decorative work can still be seen, up Pound Street, near its junction with Cobb Road.
Dorset is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester, situated in the south of the county. Between its extreme points Dorset measures 80 kilometres (50 mi) from east to west and 64 km (40 mi) north to south, and has an area of 2,653 square kilometres. Dorset borders Devon to the west, Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north-east, and Hampshire to the east. Around half of Dorset's population lives in the South East Dorset conurbation. The rest of the county is largely rural with a low population density.
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