Lyme Regis is a community in West Dorset, England, 25 miles (40 km) west of Dorchester and also 25 miles (40 kilometres) east of Exeter. Styled "The Pearl of Dorset", it lies at Lyme Bay on the English Channel shore at the Dorset-- Devon border. It is kept in mind for fossils found in high cliffs and also beaches on the Heritage Coast or Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site. The harbour wall-- called "The Cobb"-- appears in Jane Austen's novel Persuasion, the John Fowles novel The French Lieutenant's Woman, as well as the 1981 film of that name, which was partly shot in the town. A previous mayor and MP was Admiral Sir George Somers, that established the English colonial settlement of Somers Isles, currently Bermuda, where Lyme Regis is twinned with St George's. In July 2015, Lyme Regis also joined Jamestown, Virginia, in a Historical Atlantic Triangle with St George's. The 2011 Census offered the church and also selecting ward a population of 3,671.