Lyme Regis
Lyme Regis is a town in West Dorset, England, 25 miles (40 kilometres) west of Dorchester and also 25 miles (40 km) east of Exeter. Styled "The Pearl of Dorset", it exists at Lyme Bay on the English Channel coast at the Dorset-- Devon border. It is noted for fossils discovered in cliffs as well as beaches on the Heritage Coast or Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site. The harbour wall-- known as "The Cobb"-- shows up in Jane Austen's novel Persuasion, the John Fowles novel The French Lieutenant's Woman, and also the 1981 movie of that name, which was partly fired 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 additionally signed up with Jamestown, Virginia, in a Historic Atlantic Triangle with St George's. The 2011 Census offered the church and electoral ward a population of 3,671.