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Lyme Regis. Lyme Regis (/ ˌlaɪm ˈriːdʒɪs / LYME REE-jiss) is a town in west Dorset, England, 25 miles (40 km) west of Dorchester and east of Exeter. Sometimes dubbed the "Pearl of Dorset", [3] it lies by the English Channel at the Dorset– Devon border. It has noted fossils in cliffs and beaches on the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage ...
Lyme Bay was the site of Exercise Tiger, [6] a practice run for the D-Day invasion of France in 1944, using the beach called Slapton Sands near Slapton, Devon as the practice landing zone. The operation was intercepted by German E-boats that attacked the landing craft, killing 749 American Army and Navy personnel in the middle of Babbacombe Bay ...
The RNLI then ordered a lifeboat for the Lyme Regis and it arrived in the town by September 1853. [1] [2] A new lifeboat station was built in 1883, the original one being part-exchanged for a new site. It was closed in 1932 by which time the RNLI's lifeboats had been called out on 32 occasions. By now the motor lifeboats at Weymouth and Exmouth ...
General information. Location. 15 - 19 Broad Street, Lyme Regis, Dorset, England. Coordinates. 50°43′28″N 2°56′5″W / 50.72444°N 2.93472°W / 50.72444; -2.93472. The Three Cups Hotel is a hotel in Lyme Regis, Dorset, England. It lies across the street from the Royal Lion Hotel. It became a listed building on 23 April 1952.
The Greater Ridgeway, also known as the Great Chalk Way, is a 362 miles long-distance footpath crossing England from Lyme Regis in Dorset [1] to Hunstanton in Norfolk. [2] It is a combined route which is made by joining four long-distance footpaths: the Wessex Ridgeway, The Ridgeway National Trail, the Icknield Way and the Peddars Way National Trail.
The Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliffs, also often referred to in the singular as the Undercliff, is a 5-mile (8.0 km) long landscape feature, National Nature Reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest that connects Seaton and Axmouth with Lyme Regis on the south-west coast of England. Like its namesake on the Isle of Wight, this feature ...
Lyme Regis Philpot Museum is situated in the town of Lyme Regis on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England. It is a registered charity under English law. [1] It is built on the site of the former home of the palaeontologist Mary Anning, [2] which existed until 1826. The museum building was commissioned in 1901 by Thomas Philpot, a relative of the ...