Lyme Regis
Lyme Regis is a community in West Dorset, England, 25 miles (40 kilometres) west of Dorchester as well as 25 miles (40 km) eastern 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 high cliffs and 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, as well as the 1981 film of that name, which was partly fired in the community. A previous mayor and also MP was Admiral Sir George Somers, who started the English colonial negotiation of Somers Isles, now Bermuda, where Lyme Regis is twinned with St George's. In July 2015, Lyme Regis likewise joined Jamestown, Virginia, in a Historic Atlantic Triangle with St George's. The 2011 Census provided the parish and also electoral ward a population of 3,671.